Etiology and outcome of acute pelvic inflammatory disease

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 510-517

  Branham, R C ^a   Binns, B ^a   Guijon, F ^a   Danforth, D ^a   Kosseim, M L ^a   Rand, F ^a   McDowell, J ^a   Rayner, E ^a  

^a HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023676064     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/158.3.510     Document Type: Article

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