Tuberculosis and female reproductive health

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 307-313

  Ghosh, K ^a,b   Chowdhury, J R ^c  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c ESI HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Endometritis; fetal loss; hormonal imbalance; human immunodeficiency virus infection; menorrhagia; multidrug resistant tuberculosis; synecheae; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ETHAMBUTOL; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VITAMIN K GROUP;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRACEPTION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG FEVER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS MALFORMATION; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MIXED INFECTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; NEUROPATHY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; STOMACH IRRITATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84855237875     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: 09722823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.90082     Document Type: Review

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