Antenatal mycoplasma infection, the fetal inflammatory response and cerebral white matter damage in very-low-birthweight infants

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-57

  Dammann, Olaf ^a,b,c   Allred, Elizabeth N ^b,c,d   Genest, David R ^c,e   Kundsin, Ruth B ^c,e   Leviton, Alan ^b,c  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN INJURY; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; PLACENTA; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VASCULITIS; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHORION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0037977969     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.2003.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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