Infection and preterm birth

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 397-410

  Klein, Laura L ^a   Gibbs, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANDIDIASIS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; RISK; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINITIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 23944442424     PISSN: 08898545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ogc.2005.03.001     Document Type: Review

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