Perinatal Infections and Cerebral Palsy

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 315-333

  Hermansen, Marcus C ^a,b   Hermansen, Mary Goetz ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Southern New Hampshire Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; RANTES;

AMNION; AMNIONITIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; APGAR SCORE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL DISEASE; MENINGITIS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERINATAL INFECTION; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PLACENTA DISORDER; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VAGINITIS;

CEREBRAL PALSY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33744796815     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2006.03.002     Document Type: Review

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