Inflammatory smears - Is there a correlation between microbiology and cytology findings?

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 295-296

  Burke, Cathy ^a,b   Hickey, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE;

BACTEROIDES; CANDIDA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COLPOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFLAMMATION; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; URINALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; VAGINA SMEAR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GARDNERELLA; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ADULT; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; CANDIDA; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 20544437246     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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