Intraamniotic infection in low-birth-weight infants

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 113-117

  Sperling, Rhoda S ^a   Newton, Edward ^a   Gibbs, Ronald S ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMAN; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; SEPTICEMIA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TEXAS;

EID: 0023837078     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/157.1.113     Document Type: Article

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