Toxoplasmosis: The innocent suspect of pregnancy wastage in Duhok, Iraq

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 625-632

  Razzak, Ala Hani ^a   Wais, S A ^a   Saeid, A Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUHOK   (Iraq)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IRAQ; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IRAQ; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33646165865     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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