The burden of reproductive-organ disease in rural women in The Gambia, West Africa

Lancet

Volumn 357, Issue 9263, 2001, Pages 1161-1167

  Walraven, Gijs ^a   Scherf, Caroline ^b   West, Beryl ^a   Ekpo, Gloria ^a   Paine, Katie ^a   Coleman, Rosalind ^a   Bailey, Robin ^a   Morison, Linda ^c  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HEALTH CARE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RURAL AREA; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

EID: 0035857975     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)04333-6     Document Type: Article

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