Group B streptococcus: To culture or not to culture?

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 337-342

  Katz, Patricia Farber ^a   Hibbard, Judith U ^a,b   Ranganathan, Deepa ^a   Meadows, Williams ^a   Ismail, Mahmoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0033155156     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7200191     Document Type: Article

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