Preventive Antepartum Care

Overview

Journal Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol

Publisher Wiley

Specialties Gynecology & Obstetrics
Infectious Diseases

Date 1994 Jan 1

PMID 18475371

Authors

W J Ledger

Affiliations

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Abstract

As the role of the obstetrician-gynecologist evolves to include primary care, the obstetrician must assume greater responsibility for providing prenatal preventive care, particularly regarding the STORCH(5) pathogens.

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