Prevention of recurrent fetal death in utero due to group B streptococcal chorioamnionitis

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 356-357

  Jones, Stephanie ^a   Athan, Eugene ^a   Viggers, John ^a  

^a Barwon Health ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEPSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TWIN PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVIX INCOMPETENCE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFTRIAXONE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RECURRENCE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 4444358933     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2004.00237.x     Document Type: Article

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