Maternal and neonatal tetanus

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9965, 2015, Pages 362-370

  Thwaites, C Louise ^a   Beeching, Nicholas J ^b   Newton, Charles R ^c,d  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; TETANUS ANTIBODY; TETANUS TOXIN; TETANUS TOXOID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABORTION; ABORTION RELATED TETANUS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ELIMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MATERNAL TETANUS; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN TETANUS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; TETANUS; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; DISEASE ERADICATION; HEALTH; INDUCED ABORTION; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TRENDS;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISEASE ERADICATION; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TETANUS; TETANUS ANTITOXIN; TETANUS TOXIN;

EID: 84921540640     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60236-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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