Use of vaginally administered chlorhexidine during labor to improve pregnancy outcomes

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1139-1146

  Goldenberg, Robert L ^a   McClure, Elizabeth M ^b   Saleem, Sarah ^b   Rouse, Dwight ^b   Vermund, Sten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CHLORHEXIDINE;

ANAPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISINFECTION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABOR; NEWBORN INFECTION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHLORHEXIDINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PUERPERAL INFECTION;

EID: 33646807474     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000215000.65665.dd     Document Type: Review

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