Potential pathogens in the lower genital tract at manual vacuum aspiration for incomplete abortion in Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 398-401

  Lassey, A T ^a,b   Adanu, R M K ^a   Newman, M J ^a   Opintah, J A ^a  

^a KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURETTAGE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; MICROBIOLOGY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS;

ABORTION, INCOMPLETE; ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CARRIER STATE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; POVERTY AREAS; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; VACUUM CURETTAGE; VAGINAL SMEARS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 16644383056     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/eamj.v81i8.9200     Document Type: Article

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