A Comparison of Early-Onset Group B Streptococcal Neonatal Infection and the Respiratory-Distress Syndrome of the Newborn

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 1976, Pages 65-70

  Ablow, Ronald C ^a   Driscoll, Shirley G ^a   Effmann, Eric L ^a   Gross, Ian ^a   Jolles, Christopher J ^a   Uauy, Ricardo ^a   Warshaw, Joseph B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HYALINE MEMBRANE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; AUTOPSY; DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN PNEUMONIA; PERINATAL INFECTION; THERAPY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMAN; HYALINE MEMBRANE DISEASE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0016870464     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197601082940201     Document Type: Article

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