Chlamydial and gonococcal cervicitis in HIV-seropositive and HIV- seronegative pregnant women in Bangkok: Prevalence, risk factors, and relation to perinatal HIV transmission

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 495-502

  Chaisilwattana, Pongsakdi ^a   Chuachoowong, Rutt ^a,b   Siriwasin, Wimol ^c   Bhadrakom, Chaiporn ^a   Mangclaviraj, Yunyong ^c   Young, Nancy L ^b,e   Chearskul, Sanay ^a   Chotpitayasunondh, Tawee ^d   Mastro, Timothy D ^b,e   Shaffer, Nathan ^b,e,f  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b HIV/AIDS Collaboration   (Thailand)

^c RAJAVITHI HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

^d Bangkok Children's Hospital   (Thailand)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^f MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA PROBE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; THAILAND; UTERINE CERVICITIS;

ASIA; BIOLOGY; CHLAMYDIA; CORRELATION STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EXAMINATIONS AND DIAGNOSES; FETUS; GONORRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; INFECTIONS; MEASUREMENT; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RISK FACTORS; SCREENING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; STATISTICAL STUDIES; STUDIES; THAILAND; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRAL DISEASES;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; THAILAND; URBAN HEALTH; UTERINE CERVICITIS;

EID: 0030666217     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199710000-00001     Document Type: Article

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