Ampicillin Prevents Intrapartum Transmission of Group B Streptococcus

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 241, Issue 12, 1979, Pages 1245-1247

  Yow, Martha D ^a   Mason, Edward O ^a   Gardner, Susan E ^a   Clark, Dorothy J ^a   Leeds, Leroy J ^a   Thompson, Peter K ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN;

AMNION FLUID; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN CELL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PREVENTION; PROPHYLAXIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; THERAPY; VULVOVAGINITIS;

AMPICILLIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LABOR ONSET; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 0018756938     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290380021019     Document Type: Article

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