Awareness of and knowledge about mother-to-child infections in Japanese pregnant women

Congenital Anomalies

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-40

  Morioka, Ichiro ^a   Sonoyama, Ayako ^a   Tairaku, Shinya ^a   Ebina, Yasuhiko ^a   Nagamata, Satoshi ^a   Morizane, Mayumi ^a   Tanimura, Kenji ^a   Iijima, Kazumoto ^a   Yamada, Hideto ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Parvovirus B19; Pregnant women; Rubella virus; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; PARVOVIRUS B19; PREGNANT WOMEN; RUBELLA VIRUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ADULT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RUBELLA VIRUS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 84894491962     PISSN: 09143505     EISSN: 17414520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cga.12030     Document Type: Article

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