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Article: Pre-Pregnancy Antibiotics Do Not Prevent Preterm Birth, Researchers Say.
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- February 5, 2004
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- A randomized clinical trial has found that antibiotic treatment before pregnancy did not prevent preterm birth among women who had had a previous premature baby.
"Interconceptional Antibiotics to Prevent Spontaneous Preterm Birth (SPTB): A Randomized Trial," by William Andrews, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, explored whether antibiotic treatment before pregnancy would prevent preterm birth among women at high risk because of a previous premature birth. Surprisingly, the treated women had a slightly increased rate of preterm birth and low birthweight compared to the control group.