Demographic and reproductive factors for high seroprevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis among pregnant women in Japan

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-13

  Kusano, Yosuke ^a   Shibata, Yoshisada ^a   Katamine, Shigeru ^a   Yamamoto, Taro ^a   Kurokawa, Kenji ^a   Moriuchi, Ryozo ^a   Kubota, Kenji ^a   Masuzaki, Hideaki ^a   Honda, Sumihisa ^a   Moji, Kazuhiko ^a   Takemoto, Taiichiro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INDUCED ABORTION; JAPAN; MARRIAGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONDOMS; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MARRIAGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 0033643854     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.190.1     Document Type: Article

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