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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2017
Qiagen Sciences, Llc, Germantown, MD (US);
Ruben Salinas, Boston, MA (US);
Anthony Ausiello, Boston, MA (US);
Qiagen Sciences, LLC, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Abstract
A method of determining risk of preterm labor in an asymptomatic pregnant woman can include: obtaining a vaginal fluid sample from an asymptomatic pregnant woman; contacting the vaginal fluid sample with a PAMG-1 antibody that binds with PAMG-1; detecting whether the PAMG-1 antibody binds with PAMG-1 in the vaginal fluid sample to form a PAMG-1-antibody complex; and providing the determined risk to the pregnant woman. When the PAMG-1-antibody complex forms, the asymptomatic pregnant woman is determined to be susceptible to preterm labor because PAMG-1 is detected in the vaginal sample. When the PAMG-1-antibody complex does not form, the asymptomatic pregnant woman is determined to be not susceptible to preterm labor because the PAMG-1 is not detected in the vaginal sample.