Vaginal leucocyte counts in women with bacterial vaginosis: Relation to vagina and cervical infections

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 401-405

  Geisler, William M ^a,b   Yu, S ^c   Venglarik, M ^b   Schwebke, J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c Jefferson County Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CANDIDIASIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RISK; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNIQUE; TRICHOMONIASIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINA CYTOLOGY; VAGINITIS; GENITAL HERPES; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; VAGINA; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVICAL DISEASES; VAGINA; VAGINAL DISCHARGE; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 6044269484     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2003.009134     Document Type: Article

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