Are We Using the Optimal Strategy for GBS Management in Pregnancy?

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 499-500

  Yudin, Mark H ^a   Shah, Vibhuti ^b   Ohlsson, Arne ^b,c   Farine, Dan ^c  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CANADA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABOR; MASS SCREENING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748876990     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)32185-5     Document Type: Editorial

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