A five-year study of ophthalmia neonatorum in Iran: Prevalence and etiology

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Amini, Elaheh ^a,b   Ghasemi, Mehdi ^a,c   Daneshjou, Khadije ^a,b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Neonatal conjunctivitis; Newborn; Ophthalmia neonatorum; Septicemia

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; KLEBSIELLA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN OPHTHALMIA; NONHUMAN; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREGNANCY; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAN; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MALE; OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM; PREGNANCY; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 39349084109     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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