Preventing perinatal infections: Need for a simple, inexpensive, safe intervention that can be used routinely in all women

BMJ

Volumn 315, Issue 7102, 1997, Pages 199-200

  Hofmeyr, G Justus ^a   Mcintyre, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CESAREAN SECTION; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABOR; NEWBORN; PERINATAL INFECTION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGINITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0030848316     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7102.199     Document Type: Editorial

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