The prevalence, incidence and risk factors of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection among pregnant Zimbabwean women followed up nine months after childbirth

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Munjoma, Marshall W ^a,b   Kurewa, Edith N ^a,b   Mapingure, Munyaradzi P ^a,b   Mashavave, Grace V ^a   Chirenje, Mike Z ^a   Rusakaniko, Simbarashe ^a   Hussain, Akhtar ^b   Stray Pedersen, Babill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYGAMY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEROCONVERSION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; ZIMBABWE; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; GENITAL HERPES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STATISTICS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNSAFE SEX; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERPES GENITALIS; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 76749138499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-10-2     Document Type: Article

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