Frequent douching and clinical outcomes among HIV-infected women

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 985-990

  Clark, Rebecca A ^a,c   Theall, Katherine P ^a   Amedee, Angela M ^a   Kissinger, Patricia J ^b  

^a Louisiana State University Health Science Center   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUCHING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNITED STATES; VAGINITIS; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RNA, VIRAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOLUTIONS; VAGINA; VAGINAL DOUCHING; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 36348937841     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31811ec7cb     Document Type: Article

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