Female genital schistosomiasis as an evidence of a neglected cause for reproductive ill-health: A retrospective histopathological study from Tanzania

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Swai, Britta ^a   Poggensee, Gabriele ^b   Mtweve, Sabina ^a   Krantz, Ingela ^c,d  

^a KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c Skaraborgs Institutet   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ADULT; AWARENESS; BLEEDING DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SYMPTOM; TANZANIA; ULCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TANZANIA;

EID: 33748875806     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-134     Document Type: Review

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