One-stop service for antenatal syphilis screening and prevention of congenital syphilis in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: A cluster randomized trial

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 714-720

  Munkhuu, Bayalag ^a   Liabsuetrakul, Tippawan ^b   Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi ^b   McNeil, Edward ^b   Janchiv, Radnaabazar ^a  

^a State Research Center on Maternal and Child Health   (Mongolia)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONGOLIA; PRENATAL SCREENING; REAGIN TEST;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MASS SCREENING; MONGOLIA; PENICILLIN G BENZATHINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SYPHILIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 70350772320     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181bc0960     Document Type: Article

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