Uses of macrolide antibiotics in obstetrics and gynecology

Primary Care Update for Ob/Gyns

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 122-127

  Reisner, Dale P ^a  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIASIS; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GONORRHEA; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; LIVER TOXICITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIROCHETE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 0030200379     PISSN: 1068607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1068-607X(96)86780-1     Document Type: Article

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