Etiologic agents of cervicovaginitis in Turkish women

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1503-1507

  Ozturk, Cihadiye E ^a   Ozdemir, Ismail ^a   Yavuz, Tevfik ^a   Kaya, Demet ^a   Behcet, Mustafa ^a  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HAFNIA ALVEI; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROSCOPY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP D; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UTERINE CERVIX VAGINITIS; VAGINITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIASIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TURKEY; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINITIS;

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