Maternal carriage and neonatal acquisition of group b streptococci jacomina a. a. hoogkamp-korstanje1,2

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 1982, Pages 800-803

  Gerards, L J ^a,b   Cats, B P ^a,b  

^a Department of Pathology   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER; ECOLOGY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; NEWBORN; NORMAL VALUE; PREGNANCY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

CARRIER STATE; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; RECTUM; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 0019941028     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/145.6.800     Document Type: Article

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