The burden and risk factors of Sexually Transmitted Infections and Reproductive Tract Infections among pregnant women in Zimbabwe

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kurewa, Nyaradzai E ^a,b   Mapingure, Munyaradzi P ^a,b   Munjoma, Marshal W ^a,b   Chirenje, Mike Z ^a   Rusakaniko, Simbarashe ^a   Stray Pedersen, Babill ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTITRICHOMONAL AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONDOM; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENITAL CANDIDIASIS; GENITAL ULCER; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM STAINING; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MICROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; MULTIPARA; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; POLYGAMY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; URBAN AREA; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINITIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZIMBABWE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; MALE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANT WOMEN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; URBAN POPULATION; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 77952449270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-127     Document Type: Article

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