Pregnancy outcome following gestational exposure to azithromycin

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sarkar, Moumita ^a,b   Woodland, Cindy ^a,b   Koren, Gideon ^a,b   Einarson, Adrienne R N ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PARACETAMOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TERATOGENICITY; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 33745478886     PISSN: 14712393     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-6-18     Document Type: Article

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