Association between Chlamydia trachomatis and abnormal uterine bleeding

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 361-366

  Toth, Miklos ^a   Patton, Dorothy L ^b   Esquenazi, Benjamin ^a   Shevchuk, Maria ^a   Thaler, Howard ^c   Divon, Michael ^a  

^a LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal uterine bleeding; Chlamydia trachomatis

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERUS BLEEDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL COUNT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; METRORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA CELLS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247164171     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2007.00481.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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