Maternal Use of Antibiotics and the Risk of Childhood Febrile Seizures: A Danish Population-Based Cohort

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Miller, Jessica E ^a   Pedersen, Lars Henning ^b,c   Vestergaard, Mogens ^c   Olsen, Jørn ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LINCOSAMIDE DERIVATIVE; MACROLIDE; NITROFURANTOIN; PIVMECILLINAM; STREPTOGRAMIN DERIVATIVE; SULFAMETHIZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TRIMETHOPRIM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTITIS; DENMARK; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; FETUS RISK; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETIOLOGY; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RISK; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876197434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061148     Document Type: Article

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