Prevalence and correlates of mycoplasma genitalium infection among female sex workers in Kampala, Uganda

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 289-296

  Vandepitte, Judith ^a   Muller, Etienne ^b   Bukenya, Justine ^a   Nakubulwa, Susan ^a   Kyakuwa, Nassim ^a   Buvé, Anne ^d   Weiss, Helen ^c   Hayes, Richard ^c   Grosskurth, Heiner ^c  

^a MRC   (Uganda)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM INFECTION; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UGANDA; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CANDIDIASIS; CERVIX UTERI; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; GRAVIDITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84555186964     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir733     Document Type: Article

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