Does bacterial vaginosis cause pelvic inflammatory disease?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 117-122

  Taylor, Brandie Depaoli ^a   Darville, Toni ^b   Haggerty, Catherine L ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL ADHESION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRITIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PH; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SALPINGITIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINITIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84872945340     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31827c5a5b     Document Type: Review

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