Antibody to chlamydial hsp60 predicts an increased risk for chlamydial pelvic inflammatory disease

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 175, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1153-1158

  Peeling, Rosanna W ^b   Kimani, Joshua ^b   Plummer, Francis ^b   Maclean, Ian ^b   Cheang, Mary ^b   Bwayo, Job ^b   Brunham, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADNEXA DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTITUTION; UTERINE CERVICITIS;

EID: 0030992953     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516454     Document Type: Article

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