Reproductive tract infections including sexually transmitted infections: A population-based study of women of reproductive age in a rural district of Vietnam

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 126-132

  Lan, P T ^a,f   Sralsby Lundborg C ^a,b   Phuc, H D ^c   Sihavong, A ^a,d   Unemo, M ^e   Chuc, N T K ^f   Khang, T H ^f,g   Mogren, I ^h  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Viet Nam)

^d Ministry of Health   (Laos)

^e ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^g National Institute of Dermato Venereology   (Viet Nam)

^h UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDIASIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HEPATITIS B; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIED WOMAN; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINITIS; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RURAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VIETNAM;

EID: 41849129929     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2007.027821     Document Type: Article

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