Preterm labor, preterm premature rupture of membranes, and chorioamnionitis

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 571-600

  Newton, Edward R ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOXITIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; INDOMETACIN; INSULIN; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METRONIDAZOLE; OXYTOCIN; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLIN G; PROGESTERONE; RITODRINE; SULTAMICILLIN; TERBUTALINE; TIMENTIN; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ASTHMA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISABILITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; LETHALITY; MATERNAL CARE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINITIS;

CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 23444458106     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2005.05.001     Document Type: Review

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