Efficacy of maternal and neonatal chemoprophylaxis for early-onset group b streptococcal disease

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 123-129

  Stafford, Irene A ^a   Stewart, Robert D ^a   Sheffield, Jeanne S ^a   Wendel, George D ^a   Sanchez, Pablo J ^a   McIntire, Donald D ^a   Roberts, Scott W ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SEPSIS; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CHEMOPREVENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PENICILLIN G; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 84871695380     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182592451     Document Type: Article

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