The role of perinatal pathological examination in subclinical infection in obstetrics

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 505-521

  Al Adnani, M ^a   Sebire, N J ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ascending infection; chorioamnionitis; haematogenous spread; villitis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYTOKINE; PENICILLIN G; SPIRAMYCIN;

AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN INJURY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHILDBIRTH; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LISTERIOSIS; MICROSCOPY; OBSTETRIC CARE; PARASITOSIS; PARVOVIRUS; PERINATAL INFECTION; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTAL DELIVERY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 34249693127     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2007.02.001     Document Type: Review

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