Prevalence of Viral and Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Pathogens in Jamaican Pregnant Women

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-25

  Dowe, G ^a   King, S D ^b   Smikle, M F ^b   Wynter, H H ^b   Chout, R ^b   Klaskala, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; JAMAICA; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL;

EID: 0032017989     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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