Higher vaginal pH is associated with Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis infection in a predominantly white population

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 527-528

  Das, Satyajit ^a   Allan, Sris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALKALINITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GENITAL CANDIDIASIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTION; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PH MEASUREMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SMEAR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAND DISPLACEMENT AMPLIFICATION ASSAY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URETHRA; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX; VAGINA; VAGINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENGLAND; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 33746407122     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000230430.60398.e4     Document Type: Letter

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