The impact of regular vaginal pH screening on the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-43

  Gjerdingen, Dwenda ^a   Fontaine, Patricia ^a   Bixby, Mark ^a   Santilli, Jamie ^a   Welsii, Jennifer ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Hydrogen ion concentration; Prenatal care; Vaginosis, bacterial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PH; PREGNANCY; SCREENING; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINITIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MASS SCREENING; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; VAGINAL SMEARS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0033914689     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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