Maternal white blood cell count cannot identify the presence of microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity or intra-amniotic inflammation in women with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes

• Ivana Musilova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Charles University Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

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• Lenka Pliskova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnostics, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

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• Romana Gerychova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Brno, Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Petr Janku,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Brno, Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Ondrej Simetka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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• Petr Matlak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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• Bo Jacobsson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden, Domain of Health Data and Digitalization, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

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• Marian Kacerovsky

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kacermar@fnhk.cz

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Charles University Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, Biomedical Research Center, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9858-7900

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