Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among sexually active Jordanian females

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 607-610

  Mahafzah, Azmi M ^a   Al Ramahi, Muataz Q ^a   Asaĝd, Ali M ^b   El Khateeb, Mohammad S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b Ministry of Health   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GONORRHEA; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; JORDAN; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; SCREENING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; JORDAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS;

EID: 48049096601     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181676bbd     Document Type: Article

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