Does intercourse during menses increase the risk for sexually transmitted disease?

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 282, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 627-630

  Lurie, Samuel ^a,b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Intercourse; Menstruation; Sexually transmitted disease

Indexed keywords

SECRETORY LEUKOCYTE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

CHLAMYDIASIS; GENITAL HERPES; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION RISK; INNATE IMMUNITY; LATENT VIRUS INFECTION; MENSTRUATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; VAGINITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

COITUS; FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 78449299911     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-010-1564-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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