Preoperative Clindamycin Vaginal Cream Versus Vaginal Cleansing With Povidone-iodine on Postoperative Infections After Cesarean Section

Inclusion Criteria: * female participants with singleton pregnancies scheduled for elective cesarean sections at term, specifically between 37 and 40 weeks of gestation * free from any medical disorders. * The participants' ages ranged from 18 to 40 years * body mass index (BMI) ranged from 18 to 30 kg/m2 Exclusion Criteria: 1. Cases of urgent or emergent CS. 2. Abnormal vaginal secretion (bad smelling yellowish secretion, whitish cheesy discharge with pruritus, bloody discharge; etc…). 3. Women with medical disorders such as pre-gestational diabetes, anemia, hypertension, preeclampsia, or immunosuppressant pregnant women. 4. Women who had a skin infection adjacent to the operative site. 5. Allergy to topical povidone-iodine or clindamycin 6. Feverish patients or history of premature rupture of membranes or with placenta previa. 7. patients lost during follow-up were excluded from the final analysis.