Correlation between fetal lung score, amniotic fluid and fetal cytokines, culture results and labor.

*Serial cultures of amniotic fluid were tested during the course of the experiment with approximately 10 samples tested per animal. Quantitative real-time PCR was performed on serially sampled amniotic fluid at three points in the course of the experiment including the day prior to inoculation, day of Cesarean section and once during the course of the experiment.