Accuracy of diagnostic tests to detect asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 113, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 346-352

  Mignini, Luciano ^a   Carroli, Guillermo ^b   Abalos, Edgardo ^b   Widmer, Mariana ^b   Amigot, Susana ^b   Nardin, Juan Manuel ^b   Giordano, Daniel ^b   Merialdi, Mario ^b   Arciero, Graciela ^b   Del Carmen Hourquescos, Maria ^b  

^a Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE; NITRATE; CARBOXYLESTERASE; LEUKOCYTE ESTERASE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIPSLIDE TECHNIQUE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINE CULTURE; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIURIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; URINALYSIS; URINE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BACTERIURIA; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NITRITES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; URINALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 60549117148     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318194f109     Document Type: Article

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