Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in a low-risk population in Hungary

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 538-542

  Deák, Judith ^a   Nagy, Elisabeth ^a   Veréb, Ilona ^a   Mészáros, Gyula ^a   Kovács, László ^a   Nyári, Tibor ^a   Berbik, István ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b Ministry of Welfare   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0343488746     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199710000-00008     Document Type: Article

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