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November 2009 | Vol. 201, No. 5AJOG's impact factor up 18%AJOG named in top 100 highly influential journals
Featured ArticlesUndiagnosed cases of fatal Clostridium-associated toxic shock in California women of childbearing age When 4 Clostridium sordellii–associated fatalities followed medical abortions in California, a population-based death certificate review of undiagnosed gynecologic deaths yielded 5 C perfringens or C sordellii cases unassociated with medical abortions. Read the report from the Surveillance for Unexplained Deaths (SUDS) Project, California Emerging Infections Program, Oakland, CA, and 4 CDC divisions that found an association between Clostridium and undiagnosed catastrophic infectious gynecologic illnesses among women of childbearing age.Screening and treating for primary cytomegalovirus infection in pregnancy: where do we stand? A decision-analytic and economic analysis Research is urgently needed on virus-specific immunoglobulin as a potential method for preventing congenital CMV infection, a significant cause of neonatal morbidity. Learn why adopting a strategy of universal screening for primary maternal CMV and treatment with CMV-IVIG may be cost effective if current data on treatment efficacy can be validated.Selected papers from the 35th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons.
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