Independent Associations of Bacterial Vaginosis and Chlamydia trachomatis Infection With Adverse Pregnancy Outcome

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 256, Issue 14, 1986, Pages 1899-1903

  Gravett, Michael G ^a,b   Nelson, H Preston ^a   Derouen, Timothy ^a   Critchlow, Cathy ^a   Eschenbach, David A ^a   Holmes, King K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b St Luke's Boise Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION FLUID; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETUS; HUMAN; INFECTION; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGINA; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AMNIOTIC FLUID; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VAGINA; VAGINITIS;

EID: 84944285635     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1986.03380140069024     Document Type: Article

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