Intrauterine infection and prematurity.

By L. Goncalves, T. Chaiworapongsa, Roberto Romero. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2002

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Mom Knows Best: The Universality of Maternal Microbial Transmission (2013, background): “deliveries have found a strong correlation between intrauterine infections and preterm labor, especially when birth occurs less than 30 weeks into the pregnancy [29,30].”
The Role of Inflammation and Infection in Preterm Birth (2007, background): “Evidence of Causality Infection is a frequent and important mechanism of disease in premature labor and delivery.(5,8,38,39) The evidence in support of this includes the following observations: (1) intrauterine infection or systemic administration of microbial products to pregnant animals can result”
The composition and stability of the vaginal microbiota of normal pregnant women is different from that of non-pregnant women (2014, background): “We propose that the enhanced stability confers greater resilience and has a protective role against ascending infection of the genital tract, which is risk factor for preterm delivery [244-246] and other conditions such as a sonographic short cervix [247-249], cervical insufficiency [250-254], prete”