Bacterial vaginosis in female facility workers in north-western Tanzania: Prevalence and risk factors

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 370-375

  Baisley, Kathy ^a,b,e   Changalucha, J ^b   Weiss, H A ^a   Mugeye, K ^c   Everett, D ^a,b   Hambleton, I ^a,b   Hay, P ^d   Ross, D ^a   Tanton, C ^a,b   Chirwa, T ^a,b   Hayes, R ^a   Watson Jones, D ^a,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c African Medical and Research Foundation Mwanza   (Tanzania)

^d ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Epidemiology and Population Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; BIOLOGICAL FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDIASIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYGIENE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION; OCCUPATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYPHILIS; TANZANIA; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINAL LAVAGE; VAGINITIS; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYPHILIS; TANZANIA; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; VAGINA; VAGINAL DOUCHING; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349335681     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2008.035543     Document Type: Article

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