0.25% Chlorhexidine gluconate gel: A protective topical microbicide

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 421-424

  Patton, Dorothy L ^a,b   Cosgrove Sweeney, Yvonne T ^a   McKay, Tamyra L ^a   DeMers, Shaune M ^a   Clark, Agnes M ^b   Rabe, Lorna K ^c   Hillier, Sharon L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COLPOSCOPY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG FORMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PROPHYLAXIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINA FLORA;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLORHEXIDINE; FEMALE; GELS; MACACA NEMESTRINA; VAGINA;

EID: 0031685536     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199809000-00007     Document Type: Article

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