Costs and health consequences of chlamydia management strategies among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 558-566

  Romoren, M ^a   Hussein, F ^b   Steen, T W ^b   Velauthapillai, M ^b   Sundby, J ^a   Hjortdahl, P ^a   Kristiansen, I S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Department of HIV AIDS Prevention and Care   (Botswana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; CHLAMYDIASIS; DRUG COST; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MALE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SYPHILIS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349065532     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2007.026930     Document Type: Article

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