Antenatal screening and intrapartum management of Group B Streptococcus in the UK

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 226-230

  Kenyon, Sara ^a   Brocklehurst, Peter ^a,b   Blackburn, Ann ^a   Taylor, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MATERNAL CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED KINGDOM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, MATERNITY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PERINATAL CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 1542314795     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2004.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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