Antimicrobials for preterm birth prevention: An overview

Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Subramaniam, Akila ^a,b   Abramovici, Adi ^a   Andrews, William W ^a   Tita, Alan T ^a  

^a Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BETAMETHASONE; CEFIXIME; CEFTIZOXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEXOPRENALINE; INDOMETACIN; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MAGNESIUM; METRONIDAZOLE; PIVAMPICILLIN; PROSTAGLANDIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGE; AMNION FLUID; BACTEROIDES; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PLACENTA; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RACE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SYPHILIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOCOLYSIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UMBILICAL CORD; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FEMALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; RISK FACTOR; VAGINA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK FACTORS; VAGINA;

EID: 84858110822     PISSN: 10647449     EISSN: 10980997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/157159     Document Type: Review

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