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Article: Maternal Infection and Cerebral Palsy in Infants of Normal Birth Weight.
- Article from:
- Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine Reports
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
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Maternal Infection and Cerebral Palsy in Infants of Normal Birth Weight
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY
Synopsis: Normal birth weight infants who developed cerebral palsy often had perinatal infections.
Source: Grether JK, Nelson KB. Maternal infection and cerebral palsy in infants of normal birth weight. JAMA 1997;278:207-211.
Grether and nelson from the california Birth Defects monitoring Program and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke reviewed the records of infants from four San Francisco Bay counties with moderate or severe cerebral palsy (CP) diagnosed in the first three years of life.
In this study ...