Infection and stillbirth

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 182-189

  McClure, Elizabeth M ^a   Goldenberg, Robert L ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorioamnionitis; Infection; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RUBELLA VACCINE; VIRUS VACCINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHICKENPOX; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COXSACKIE VIRUS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GONORRHEA; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LYME DISEASE; MALARIA; MEASLES; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MOTHER; MUMPS; MYOCARDITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAROTITIS; PARVOVIRUS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; POLIOMYELITIS; PREGNANCY; Q FEVER; RUBELLA; SMALLPOX; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; STILLBIRTH; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SYPHILIS; THRUSH; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINITIS; VASCULITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 65649135016     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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