Infection and prematurity and the role of preventive strategies

Seminars in Neonatology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 259-274

  Romero, Roberto ^a   Espinoza, Jimmy ^a   Chaiworapongsa, Tinnakorn ^a   Kalache, Karim ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic treatment in pregnancy; Asymptomatic bacteriuria; Bacterial vaginosis; Infection; Prematurity

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CYTOKINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIURIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; VAGINITIS;

EID: 0036669512     PISSN: 10842756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1084-2756(02)90121-1     Document Type: Review

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