Investigation on silent bacterial infections in specimens from pregnant women affected by spontaneous miscarriage (original) (raw)

“…Chorionic villi specimens (n=200) and corresponding PBMCs (n=200) were from our collection [7]. The samples were taken from two different cohorts: (i) females affected by spontaneous abortion (SA, n=100, mean age ± standard deviation of mean [±SD], 36.5 yrs), the cases; (ii) females who underwent voluntary pregnancy interruption (VI, n=100, mean age ±SD, 32±6 yrs), the controls.…”