Group A streptococcal toxic shock syndrome developing in the third trimester of pregnancy

Infectious Disease in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 209-216

  Crum, Nancy F ^a   Chun, Helen M ^a   Gaylord, Thomas G ^a   Hale, Braden R ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Intravenous immunoglobulin; Puerperal infection; Septic shock; Streptococcus pyogenes

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INFUSION FLUID; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS MORTALITY; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEWBORN DEATH; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; ULTRASOUND; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0036991306     PISSN: 10647449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1064744902000248     Document Type: Article

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