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==Chorioamnionitis==
==Chorioamnionitis==
===General===
===General===
Clinical:
*Classically due to an ascending infection and associated with pre-term labour.
*At term usually non-infectious.<ref name=pmid22412842>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Roberts | first1 = DJ. | last2 = Celi | first2 = AC. | last3 = Riley | first3 = LE. | last4 = Onderdonk | first4 = AB. | last5 = Boyd | first5 = TK. | last6 = Johnson | first6 = LC. | last7 = Lieberman | first7 = E. | title = Acute histologic chorioamnionitis at term: nearly always noninfectious. | journal = PLoS One | volume = 7 | issue = 3 | pages = e31819 | month =  | year = 2012 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0031819 | PMID = 22412842 }}</ref>
 
Clinical features:
*Maternal fever.
*Maternal fever.
*Premature rupture of membranes (PROM).
*Premature rupture of membranes (PROM).