Microbial correlates of delayed care for pelvic inflammatory disease

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 434-438

  Taylor, Brandie D ^a   Ness, Roberta B ^b   Darville, Toni ^c   Haggerty, Catherine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHRONIC PAIN; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954609251     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181ffa7c7     Document Type: Article

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