Group B streptococcus carriage and vulvovaginal symptoms: Causal or casual? A case-control study in a GUM clinic population

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 246-248

  Shaw, C ^a   Mason, M ^a   Scoular, Anne ^a  

^a Sandyford Initiative ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYGIENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; VULVOVAGINITIS;

ADULT; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA; VAGINAL DISEASES; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; VULVA; VULVAR DISEASES;

EID: 0037974501     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.79.3.246     Document Type: Article

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