Genital tract shedding of herpes simplex virus type 2 in women: Effects of hormonal contraception, bacterial vaginosis, and vaginal group B Streptococcus colonization

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1422-1428

  Cherpes, Thomas L ^a,c   Melan, Melissa A ^b   Kant, Jeffrey A ^b   Cosentino, Lisa A ^c   Meyn, Leslie A ^c   Hillier, Sharon L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GRAM STAINING; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 18244398661     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/429622     Document Type: Article

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