Risk factors for bacterial vaginosis in women attending a hospital in Kerman, Islamic Republic of Iran

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 410-415

  Ashraf Ganjoei, T ^a  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ABORTION; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; IRAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCREENING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VAGINITIS;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; CONTRACEPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; IRAN; MASS SCREENING; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; WOMEN;

EID: 33645317884     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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