Streptococcal screening in obstetrics

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 721-723

  Mead, Philip B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CLINDAMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP C; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP G; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PUERPERAL INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0034767015     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0029-7844(01)01620-9     Document Type: Editorial

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