Penicillin at birth can help prevent early-onset group B streptococcal disease

Pediatrics

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 651-652

  Wedgwood, Josiah F ^a   Carlin, Elizabeth B ^a   Benjamin, Beth L ^a   Weintraub, Andrea ^a   Lasker, Michelle ^a   Green, Robert S ^a   Holzman, Ian R ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

BIRTH; DISEASE CONTROL; HUMAN; LETTER; NEWBORN CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLINS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0030992948     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.99.4.651a     Document Type: Article

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