Distribution of Candida species in women with vulvovaginal symptoms and their association with different ages and contraceptive methods

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 6-7, 2007, Pages 584-588

  Cetin, Meryem ^a   Ocak, Sabahattin ^a   Gungoren, Arif ^a   Hakverdi, Ali Ulvi ^a  

^a KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COITUS; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; OUTPATIENT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VULVOVAGINITIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34347349058     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540601148491     Document Type: Article

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