Antibiotics for preterm rupture of the membranes: A systematic review

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 104, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 1051-1057

  Kenyon, Sara ^b   Boulvain, Michel ^a   Neilson, Jim ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; OXYGEN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO; SURFACTANT; AMOXICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BLOOD CULTURE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MORBIDITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

AMOXICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; PENICILLINS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 16244390522     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000143268.36682.21     Document Type: Review

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