Bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy: Diagnosis, screening, and management

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 617-627

  Yudin, Mark H ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDES; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSENSUS; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ENDOMETRITIS; FETUS RISK; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM STAINING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LACTOBACILLUS; MOBILUNCUS; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SCREENING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SMOKING; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINAL LAVAGE; VAGINITIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 23444448458     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2005.05.007     Document Type: Review

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