The human microbiome and the great obstetrical syndromes: A new frontier in maternal-fetal medicine

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 165-175

  Solt, Ido ^a,b  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

bacteria; infection; inflammation; maternal fetal medicine; microbiome; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AMNIONITIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENITAL SYSTEM; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; MOUTH FLORA; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN PERIOD; OBSTETRIC PATIENT; PLACENTAL MICROBIOME; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RESPIRATORY MICROBIOME; UTERINE MICROBIOME; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINITIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURITY; SYNDROME; UTERUS; VAGINA;

CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICROBIOTA; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREMATURE BIRTH; SYNDROME; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 84925089396     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2014.04.024     Document Type: Article

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