The role of antibiotic therapy in the prevention of prematurity

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 659-685

  Mazor, M ^a   Chaim, W ^a   Maymon, E ^a   Hershkowitz, R ^a   Romero, R ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFTIZOXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN; SULBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIONITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOMETRITIS; HUMAN; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; META ANALYSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VAGINITIS;

EID: 0031658071     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0095-5108(18)30104-0     Document Type: Review

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