Prevalence of Candida albicans and Trichomonas vaginalis in pregnant women in Havana City by an immunologic latex agglutination test

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Limia, Octavio Fernández ^a   Lantero, María Isela ^b   Betancourt, Arsenio ^c   de Armas, Elizabeth ^a   Villoch Cambas, Alejandra ^c  

^a Direction of Animal Health and Production   (Cuba)

^b MINISTERIO DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Cuba)

^c National Centre for Animal and Plant Health CENSA   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBA; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINITIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CUBA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS;

EID: 25144479933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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