Clinical triggers to initiate intrapartum penicillin therapy for prevention of group B streptococcus infection

American Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 493-498

  Hamar, Benjamin D ^a   Illuzzi, Jessica L ^a   Funai, Edmund F ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Group B streptococci (GBS); Labor; Neonatal infection

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC AGENT; OXYTOCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DELIVERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; NONHUMAN; NULLIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; LABOR STAGE 1; METHODOLOGY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; TIME;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PARITY; PENICILLINS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34047194604     PISSN: 07351631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-954823     Document Type: Article

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