Screening for syphilis during pregnancy in Nigeria: A practice that must continue

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 357-358

  Taiwo, Samuel Sunday ^a   Adesiji, Yemisi Olukemi ^a   Adekanle, Daniel Adebode ^a  

^a LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIGERIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAGIN TEST; SCREENING TEST; SEROPREVALENCE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 34547743909     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2006.023416     Document Type: Article

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