Etiology of sexually transmitted infections among street-based female sex workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1244-1246

  Rahman, Motiur ^a,c   Alam, Ashraful ^b   Nessa, Khairun ^a   Hossain, Anowar ^a   Nahar, Shamsun ^a   Datta, Dilip ^a   Khan, Shahnewaz Alam ^c   Mian, Ruhul Amin ^b   Albert, M John ^a  

^a BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIB MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b Bangladesh   (Bangladesh)

^c ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HERPES; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 2; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 0034005834     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.3.1244-1246.2000     Document Type: Article

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