The infectious origins of stillbirth

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 861-873

  Goldenberg, Robert L ^a   Thompson, Cortney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorioamnionitis; Infection; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; VIRUS VACCINE;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; COXSACKIE VIRUS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LITERATURE; LYME DISEASE; MALARIA; MATERNAL DISEASE; MEDLINE; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MICROORGANISM; PARVOVIRUS; PERINATAL INFECTION; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; Q FEVER; REVIEW; STILLBIRTH; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SUPPLEMENTATION; SYPHILIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VACCINATION; VIRUS;

EID: 0141592301     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/S0002-9378(03)00470-8     Document Type: Article

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