Epidemiology and Etiology of Sexually Transmitted Infection among Hotel-Based Sex Workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 618-621

  Nessa, Khairun ^a   Waris, Shama A ^a   Sultan, Zafar ^a   Monira, Shirajum ^a   Hossain, Maqsud ^a   Nahar, Shamsun ^a   Rahman, Habibur ^b   Alam, Mahbub ^c   Baatsen, Pam ^b   Rahman, Motiur ^a,d  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c SRISTI ^*  (Bangladesh)

^d ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BANGLADESH; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; REAGIN TEST; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; CERVIX UTERI; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PROSTITUTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VAGINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 2; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; SIMPLEXVIRUS; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 10744221496     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.2.618-621.2004     Document Type: Article

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