Is routine antenatal screening for syphilis in Nigeria still justified clinically and economically?

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1311-1315

  Bukar, Mohammed ^a   Audu, Bala M ^a   Takai, Usman I ^a   Ajayi, Bamidele B ^a   Kullima E, Abubakar A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI   (Nigeria)

^b FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIGERIA; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROPREVALENCE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST;

CARDIOLIPINS; CHOLESTEROL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NIGERIA; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 70449636189     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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