Perinatal Listeriosis: Canada's 2008 Outbreaks

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-48

  Taillefer, Catherine ^a   Boucher, Marc ^a   Laferrière, Céline ^a   Morin, Lucie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacterial infection; Chorioamnionitis; Food microbiology; Infection; Listeria monocytogenes; Listeriosis; Pregnancy complication

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; COTRIMAZINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CANADA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MEDICAL HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL LISTERIOSIS; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT DURATION; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHEESE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CANADA; CESAREAN SECTION; CHEESE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77951239105     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)34403-6     Document Type: Article

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