Risk factors for carriage of group B streptococcus in Southern Israel

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 646-648

  Marchaim, Dror ^a,b   Hallak, Mordechai ^a,b   Gortzak Uzan, Limor ^a,b   Peled, Nechama ^a,b   Riesenberg, Klaris ^a,b   Schlaeffer, Francisc ^a,b  

^a Soroka University Hospital   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Group B streptococcus; Immigrants; Israel; Neonate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; NEONATAL MONITORING;

RISK FACTORS;

DISEASES;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; OBSTETRICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; USSR;

ADULT; CARRIER STATE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; USSR; VAGINA;

EID: 0141682308     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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