Alerting pregnant women to the risk of reptile-associated salmonellosis

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 2 II, 2006, Pages 516-518

  Milstone, Aaron M ^a   Agwu, Allison George ^b   Angulo, Frederick J ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COUNSELING; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SALMONELLOSIS; ANIMAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; REPTILES; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS;

EID: 33645460005     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000187950.37065.87     Document Type: Article

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