Maternal and neonatal colonisation of group B streptococcus at Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Prevalence, risk factors and antimicrobial resistance

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Joachim, Agricola ^a   Matee, Mecky I ^a   Massawe, Furaha A ^a   Lyamuya, Eligius F ^a  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TANZANIA; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CARRIER STATE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73549092169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-437     Document Type: Article

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