Association of tuberculous endometritis with infertility and other gynecological complaints of women in India

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4068-4070

  Kumar, P ^a   Shah, N P ^a   Singhal, A ^a,c   Chauhan, D S ^b   Katoch, V M ^b   Mittal, S ^a   Kumar, S ^a   Singh, M K ^a   Datta Gupta, S ^a   Prasad, H K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL JALMA INSTITUTE OF LEPROSY AND OTHER MYCOBACTERIAL DISEASES   (India)

^c PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; INFERTILITY; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYST; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERUS PROLAPSE;

ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFERTILITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 57349149472     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01162-08     Document Type: Article

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