Antibiotics used in women at risk of preterm birth

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 199, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 583-584

  Lamont, R F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATOSIBAN; CEFALEXIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; METRONIDAZOLE; SULINDAC; TERBUTALINE; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; EDITORIAL; FETUS MORTALITY; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; MYCOPLASMA; NEWBORN INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SPONTANEOUS PRETERM LABOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINITIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57149146713     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2008.07.007     Document Type: Editorial

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