Reproductive tract infections among married women in Upper Egypt

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 139-146

  Sallam, S A ^a   Mahfouz, A A ^a   Dabbous, N I ^a   El Barrawy, M ^a   El Said, M M ^b  

^a High Institute of Public Health Egypt   (Egypt)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LAVAGE; MARRIAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SPOUSE; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; ASPERGILLOSIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EGYPT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES; IRRIGATION; MARITAL STATUS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SPOUSES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; VAGINAL DISEASES; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0035241488     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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