Maternal gonococcal infection as a preventable risk factor for low birth weight

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 531-536

  Elliott, Beverly ^a,b,c   Brunham, Robert C ^a,b,c   Laga, Marie ^a,b,c   Piot, Peter ^a,b,c   Ndinya Achola, Jackoniah O ^a,b,c   Maitha, Gregory ^a,b,c   Cheang, Mary ^a,b,c   Plummer, Francis A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONORRHEA; GRAM STAINING; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL DISEASE; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEWBORN; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SYPHILIS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINA;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GONORRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS;

EID: 0025265515     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/161.3.531     Document Type: Article

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