Development and validation of a risk prediction model for respiratory tract Ureaplasma urealyticum infection in preterm infants
Jinju Shi, Huiyue Zhang, Yanni Xu, Hongzhu Cai, Shaoru Zheng, Cuimin Su · 2026
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Description
Shi and colleagues published a 2026 study on spotting infection risk in preterm babies. A germ called Ureaplasma can infect newborn airways without clear early signs. The team studied 430 preterm infants at one hospital in Jinjiang, China. They built a scoring chart from mother and baby facts available early.
Ninety-two babies tested positive for the germ in airway samples overall. A mother's own genital infection with the germ raised risk most sharply. Early water-breaking and womb inflammation also raised the odds strongly. The chart sorted babies with high accuracy in the study's checks. Early flagging could focus monitoring and spare antibiotics for low-risk babies. All five risk inputs come from routine records, not special tests.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jinju Shi, Huiyue Zhang, Yanni Xu, Hongzhu Cai, Shaoru Zheng, Cuimin Su |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |