Leukocyte esterase activity in vaginal fluid of pregnant and non-pregnant women with vaginitis/vaginosis and in controls

Infectious Disease in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-26

  Mårdh, Per Anders ^a   Novikova, Natalia ^a   Niklasson, Ola ^a   Bekassy, Zoltan ^a   Skude, Lennart ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b HALMSTAD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacterial vaginosis; Leukocyte esterase; Pregnancy; Recurrent vulvovaginal candidosis; Vulvovaginal candidosis

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE; LEUKOCYTE ESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LACTOBACILLUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MORPHOTYPE; PH; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINA SECRETION; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VAGINAL SMEARS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0037568441     PISSN: 10647449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1064744903000036     Document Type: Article

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