Puerperal sepsis: A disease of the past?

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 106, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1314-1315

  Kent, Andrew S H ^a   Haider, Zara ^a   Beynon, John L ^a  

^a ST RICHARD S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOPAMINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL INFECTION; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 0032785301     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1999.tb08189.x     Document Type: Article

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