Antenatal infection and inflammation: What's new?

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 253-258

  Maxwell, Nicola C ^a   Davies, Philip L ^a   Kotecha, Sailesh ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antenatal infection; Chronic lung disease of prematurity; Inflammation; Ureaplasma species

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRAIN DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; UREAPLASMA;

EID: 33646714848     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.qco.0000224819.42729.2e     Document Type: Review

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