Chlamydia trachomatis as a cause of neonatal conjunctivitis in Dutch infants.
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted pathogen in adults, which at delivery may be transmitted from mother to child and cause conjunctivitis and pneumonia. In The Netherlands, prenatal chlamydial screening and treatment of pregnant women is not routine practice. The contribution of C. trachomatis to neonatal ophthalmic disease has not been studied in The Netherlands and remains unclear. ; At the Sophia Children's Hospital and Rotterdam Eye Hospital, 2 cohorts of infants <3 months of age presenting with conjunctivitis were studied, 1 retrospectively (July 1996 to July... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | article/Review |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2008 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26663162 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/10374 |