Audit of management of pregnant women with positive VDRL tests

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 202-204

  Mathai, E ^a   Mathai, M ^a   Prakash, J A J ^a   Bergstrom S ^b  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLIPIN; CHOLESTEROL; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; VENEREAL DISEASE RESEARCH LABORATORY ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INDIA; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; SYPHILIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIOLIPINS; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RELIGIOUS; HUMANS; INDIA; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL AUDIT; PENICILLINS; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SYPHILIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035406817     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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