Risk factors for early neonatal sepsis

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 274, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 198-202

  Salem, Shimrit Yaniv ^a   Sheiner, Eyal ^a   Zmora, Ehud ^a   Vardi, Hillel ^a   Shoham Vardi, Ilana ^a   Mazor, Moshe ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Advanced maternal age; Early neonatal sepsis; Risk factors; Steroids; Tocolytic agents; Very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN; MAGNESIUM; OXYGEN; STEROID; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PH; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; UMBILICAL CORD; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 33745487339     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-006-0135-1     Document Type: Article

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