Water birth: Is the water an additional reservoir for group B streptococcus?

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 273, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 236-238

  Zanetti Dallenbach R ^a   Lapaire, O ^a   Maertens, A ^a   Frei, R ^b   Holzgreve, W ^a   Hosli I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Group B streptococcus; Immersion; Water delivery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMERSION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; WATER BIRTH;

BATHS; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMERSION; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 29444433253     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-005-0067-1     Document Type: Article

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