Update on the treatment of sexually transmitted infections in pregnancy - 1

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 571-581

  Brocklehurst, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; Chlamydia; Gonorrhoea; Pregnancy; Syphilis; Trichomoniasis

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PROBENECID; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

BONE MALFORMATION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; SYPHILIS; TOOTH MALFORMATION; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINITIS;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0032866406     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0956462991914690     Document Type: Review

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