The prevalence and adverse effects of group B streptococcal colonization during pregnancy

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 654-657

  Jahromi, Bahia Namavar ^a   Poorarian, Shahnaz ^a   Poorbarfehee, Shahnaz ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fetal membranes; Group B streptococci; Perinatal care; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; PROLONGED MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PUERPERAL INFECTION; PUERPERIUM; RECTOUTERINE POUCH; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; IRAN; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57449089937     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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