Cost-effectiveness of on-site antenatal screening to prevent congenital syphilis in rural Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 7 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Blandford, John M ^a   Gift, Thomas L ^a   Vasaikar, Sandeep ^b   Mwesigwa Kayongo, Dan ^b   Dlali, Pumla ^b   Bronzan, Rachel N ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Department of Anatomical Pathology   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; REAGINIC ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REAGIN TEST; SCREENING; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOUTH AFRICA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; TREPONEMAL IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC STRIP TEST;

CHROMATOGRAPHY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT, NEWBORN; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REAGINS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AFRICA; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; SYPHILIS, CONGENITAL; TREPONEMA;

EID: 34347343928     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000258314.20752.5f     Document Type: Article

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