Group B Streptococcus infection, not birth asphyxia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 108-110

  Keogh, John M ^a   Badawi, Nadia ^b   Kurinczuk, Jennifer J ^b   Pemberton, P J ^b   Stanley, F J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS MEMBRANE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MALE; NEWBORN; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0032974206     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.1999.tb03457.x     Document Type: Article

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