Alan Leviton, Elizabeth N Allred, Karl C K Kuban, Jonathan L Hecht, Andrew B Onderdonk, T Michael O’shea, Nigel Paneth
Pediatr Res. 2010;67:95-101
Recovery of single microorganism predicts EL, whereas polymicrobial cultures & skin flora predicted VM and EL. DP CP predicted by single or multiple organisms, and skin flora. Histologic inflammation predicted VM and DP CP. Risk of VM, but not DP CP, associated with organism recovery, heightened by presence of histologic inflammation. Organism recovery not needed for placenta inflammation to predict DP CP