Screening of pregnant women attending the antenatal care clinic of a tertiary hospital in eastern Saudi Arabia for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections

Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 81-86

  Alzahrani, Alhusain J ^a   Obeid, Obeid E ^a   Hassan, Manal I ^a   Almulhim, Abdalaziz A ^a  

^a IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; sexually transmitted infections

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS ANTIGEN; CIPROFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINA SMEAR;

EID: 78951485320     PISSN: 02537184     EISSN: 19983816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0253-7184.74976     Document Type: Article

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