Infections and infertility

Primary Care Update for Ob/Gyns

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 200-206

  Rhoton Vlasak, Alice ^a  

^a Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFIXIME; CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; OFLOXACIN; PROBENECID;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; UTERINE TUBE;

EID: 0033807069     PISSN: 1068607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1068-607X(00)00047-0     Document Type: Article

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