Antibiotics in preterm labour-the ORACLE speaks

The Lancet

Volumn 372, Issue 9646, 2008, Pages 1276-1278

  Russell, AR Bedford ^a,b   Steer, PJ ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; STEROID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BREECH EXTRACTION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG INDICATION; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL INFECTION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 53249109331     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61248-9     Document Type: Note

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