Missed opportunities for preventing group B streptococcus infection

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Vergnano, Stefania ^a   Embleton, N ^b   Collinson, A ^c   Menson, E ^d   Bedford Russell, A ^e   Heath, P ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d EVELINA LONDON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTHER; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74749089485     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.160333     Document Type: Article

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