Increased Vascularity in Cervicovaginal mucosa with Schistosoma haematobium infection

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Jourdan, Peter Mark ^a,b   Roald, Borghild ^a,b   Poggensee, Gabriele ^c   Gundersen, Svein Gunnar ^d,e   Kjetland, Eyrun Floerecke ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d Sørlandet Hospital Health Enterprise   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD31 ANTIGEN; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VIABILITY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX MUCOSA; VAGINA MUCOSA; AFRICA; ANIMAL; BIOPSY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOSA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; BIOPSY; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; VAGINA; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959830727     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001170     Document Type: Article

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