Screening for syphilis in pregnancy: Which is the proper method?

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 276, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 629-631

  Wiwanitkit, Viroj ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Pregnancy; Serology; Syphilis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; REAGIN TEST; SCREENING; SEROLOGY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 35649024820     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-007-0400-y     Document Type: Article

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