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First Oral Bacteria Found Linking a Mother and Her Stillborn Baby
ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2010) — Yiping Han, a researcher from Department of Periodontics at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, reports the first documented link between a mother with pregnancy-associated gum disease to the death of her fetus.
The findings are discussed in the February issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
An Internet search in 2008 led a friend of a mother, who had just delivered a stillborn baby, to Han's research lab -- one of the few in the world working on understanding the role variations of the oral bacteria, Fusobacterium nucleatum, have on pre-term labor and stillbirths.
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more:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121171411.htmObstetrics & Gynecology. 115(2, Part 1):219, February 2010
http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/pages/currenttoc.aspxYiping W. Han, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Periodontics
School of Dental Medicine
Department of Pathology
School of Medicine
http://dental.case.edu/faculty/han.html.