Reproductive tract infections (RTIs) among married non-pregnant women living in a low-income suburb of Beirut, Lebanon

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 680-683

  Ramia, Sami ^a   Kobeissi, Loulou ^a   el Kak, Faysal ^a   Shamra, Sarah ^a   Kreidieh, Khalil ^a   Zurayk, Huda ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Community care; Laboratory diagnosis; Lebanon; Reproductive tract infections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDIASIS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DRIVER; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEBANON; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VAGINITIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 84866715523     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.1903     Document Type: Article

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