Group B streptococcal carriage and disease: A 6-year prospective study

The Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 31-36

  Dillon Jr , Hugh C ^a,b   Khare, Santosh ^a,b   Gray, Barry M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL INFECTION; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED LABOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANTIBIOTICS; CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0023200962     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3476(87)80283-4     Document Type: Article

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