Bacterial vaginosis: Treatment with clindamycin cream versus oral metronidazole

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 1020-1023

  Schmitt, Cheryl ^a   Sobel, Jack D ^a   Meriwether, Curtiz ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGINITIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; CLINDAMYCIN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VAGINAL CREAMS, FOAMS AND JELLIES; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0026654971     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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