Quantitative bacteriology of amniotic fluid from women with clinical intraamniotic infection at term

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1982, Pages 1-8

  Gibbs, Ronald S ^a   Blanco, Jorge D ^a   St Clair, Patricia J ^a   Castaneda, Yolanda S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC BACTERIA; AMNION FLUID; AMNIONITIS; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTERIOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNIOTIC FLUID; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATIONS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; PREGNANCY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0020059792     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/145.1.1     Document Type: Article

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