Bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy: Diagnosis and treatment practices of physicians in San Diego, California, 1999

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 645-649

  Callahan, David B ^a,b   Weinberg, Michelle ^a,b   Gunn, Robert A ^a,b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GONORRHEA; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRESCRIPTION; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINITIS; VULVA CANCER;

EID: 0042067956     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.OLQ.0000081395.94426.33     Document Type: Review

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