Hospital course and short-term outcomes of term and late preterm neonates following exposure to prolonged rupture of membranes and/or chorioamnionitis

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-90

  Jackson, Gregory L ^a   Rawiki, Patricia ^a   Sendelbach, Dorothy ^a   Manning, M Denise ^a   Engle, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

chorioamnionitis; early onset neonatal sepsis; group B streptococcus; neonate; prolonged rupture of membranes

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL SIGN OF INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SYMPTOM; TERM BIRTH; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84860413718     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31822fb15d     Document Type: Article

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