The use of chlorhexidine to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in low‐resource settings
- 30 March 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
- Vol. 97 (2) , 89-94
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2007.01.014
Abstract
Of the 4 million neonatal deaths and 500,000 maternal deaths that occur annually worldwide, almost 99% are in developing countries and one‐third are associated with infections. Implementation of prov...Keywords
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