Serious and Life-Threatening Pregnancy-Related Infections: Opportunities to Reduce the Global Burden

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Gravett, Courtney A ^a   Gravett, Michael G ^a,b   Martin, Emily T ^c   Bernson, Jeffrey D ^d   Khan, Sadaf ^d   Boyle, David S ^d   Lannon, Sophia M R ^b   Patterson, Janna ^b   Rubens, Craig E ^a,b   Steele, Matthew S ^d  

^a SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Program for Appropriate Technology in Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIURIA; CELLULITIS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; ENDOMETRITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABOR ONSET; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; MYOSITIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRENATAL CARE; PUERPERAL INFECTION; PYELONEPHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC ABORTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; UROSEPSIS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84868132820     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001324     Document Type: Article

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