Does Ureaplasma spp. cause chronic lung disease of prematurity: Ask the audience?

Early Human Development

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 291-296

  Maxwell, Nicola C ^a   Nuttall, Diane ^a   Kotecha, Sailesh ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic lung disease of prematurity; Macrolides; Randomised clinical trial; Respiratory distress syndrome; Ureaplasma

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTION;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA COLLECTION; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; NEONATOLOGY; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS;

EID: 64749100662     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2008.12.002     Document Type: Review

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