Female genital schistosomiasis: Facts and hypotheses

Acta Tropica

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 193-210

  Poggensee, Gabriele ^a   Feldmeier, Hermann ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Genital disease; HIV; HPV; Infertility; Schistosomiasis; Women

Indexed keywords

PRAZIQUANTEL;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; WOMENS HEALTH;

BREAST; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOLOGY; MORBIDITY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINITIS; WART VIRUS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MADAGASCAR; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM;

EID: 0035933593     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(01)00086-9     Document Type: Review

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