Puerperal sepsis in the 21st century: Progress, new challenges and the situation worldwide

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 1080, 2015, Pages 572-578

  Buddeberg, Bigna S ^a   Aveling, Wynne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; LACTIC ACID; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ENDOMETRITIS; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FEVER; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PELVIC PAIN; PHARYNGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PUERPERAL INFECTION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); UTERUS WEIGHT; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HISTORY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; SEPSIS; TIME FACTOR;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84943818605     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2015-133475     Document Type: Article

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