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Pregnant women with short cervical length (<25 mm) in second-trimester ultrasonographic assessment are at high risk for preterm birth, a major cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity worldwide. Some of these short-cervix women proceed to a more advanced stage manifested as a painless prematurely dilated cervix in the second trimester. It is not fully understood why some women have short cervical length or prematurely dilated cervix (cervical insufficiency), although evidence is mounting that there is an association between short cervical length and infection by microorganisms. The investigators hypothesize that the cervical microorganisms in pregnant women with a shortened or dilated cervix are different, compared with those in women with normal cervical length and a closed cervix.


Clinical Trial Description

Previously, culture-dependent methods were used to detect bacterial or fungal infection, but the sensitivity was low, since not all species grew well in culture. Recently, molecular methods based on PCR amplification of the bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene or the fungal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) followed by capillary sequencing has been used to identify bacteria and fungi. However, the resolution of such capillary sequencing-based method (<100 sequencing reads/sample) is too low to capture the major collection of microorganisms in a sample. Less abundant but possibly pathogenic microorganisms associated with short cervical length remain undetectable. To address the current gap in this field, we propose to more comprehensively survey microbial communities in the cervix of pregnant women by PCR amplification of the 16S rRNA region, ITS or other genomic regions with taxonomic classification potential. This will be followed by next-generation sequencing (>40,000 sequencing reads/sample), which has been proven to capture the majority of microorganisms in a sample. ;


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NCT number NCT04688866
Study type Observational
Source Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contact Stephen S Chim, PhD
Phone (852)35051324
Email sschim@cuhk.edu.hk
Status Recruiting
Phase
Start date June 5, 2012
Completion date December 31, 2025

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