A review of the role of trials of the use of antibiotics in women with preterm labor and intact membranes

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 261, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 167-172

  Chaim, W ^a   Maymon, E ^a   Mazor, M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Bacterial vaginosis; Intact membranes; Preterm labor

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ERYTHROMYCIN; FENOTEROL; INDOMETACIN; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METRONIDAZOLE; PLACEBO; SULBACTAM; TERBUTALINE; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION; AMNIONITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METRITIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINITIS;

CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0031716029     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004040050217     Document Type: Article

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