Cytokines, Pregnancy, and Bacterial Vaginosis: Comparison of Levels of Cervical Cytokines in Pregnant and Nonpregnant Women with Bacterial Vaginosis

摘要

Background. Pregnancy has been considered to be a time of relative immune compromise. Lower-genital-tract immune response appears to be influenced by pregnancy. The objective of this study was to compare, in pregnant versus nonpregnant women, endocervical proinflammatory-cytokine expression in response to bacterial vaginosis.