Early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal infection in London: 1990-1999

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1006-1011

  Mifsud, Albert J ^a   Efstratiou, Androulla ^b   Charlett, André ^b   Christine McCartney, A ^b  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN INFECTION; ONSET AGE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONDON; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 4544333665     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2004.00225.x     Document Type: Review

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