Infection and labor. VI. Prevalence, microbiology, and clinical significance of intraamniotic infection in twin gestations with preterm labor

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 757-761

  Romero, Roberto ^a   Shamma, Fayek ^a   Avila, Cecilia ^a   Jimenez, Carlos ^a   Callahan, Robert ^a   Nores, Jose ^a   Mazor, Moshe ^a   Brekus, Carol A ^a   Hobbins, John C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

chorioamnionitis; Intraamniotic infection; labor; parturition; prematurity; preterm labor; twin gestation

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; TOCOLYSIS; TWIN PREGNANCY; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; BACTERIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREVALENCE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TWINS;

EID: 0025013394     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9378(90)91063-I     Document Type: Article

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