Pandemic influenza: What obstetricians need to know

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 206-208

  Phillippe, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSELTAMIVIR;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARMY; AVIAN INFLUENZA; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBSTETRICS; PANDEMIC; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN; WAR;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 68949113619     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181b0c94e     Document Type: Editorial

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