Pregnancy and infection

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 2211-2218

  Kourtis, Athena P ^a   Read, Jennifer S ^b   Jamieson, Denise J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

CHICKENPOX; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FETUS WASTAGE; HEPATITIS E; HERPES SIMPLEX; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA; INNATE IMMUNITY; LISTERIOSIS; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEASLES; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALLPOX; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LISTERIOSIS; MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84901746116     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1213566     Document Type: Review

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