The epidemiology of bacterial vaginosis in relation to sexual behaviour

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Verstraelen, Hans ^a   Verhelst, Rita ^b   Vaneechoutte, Mario ^a   Temmerman, Marleen ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; LESBIAN; NONHUMAN; ORAL SEXUAL CONTACT; PATHOGENESIS; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; UNSAFE SEX; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 77950448056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-81     Document Type: Article

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