Urinary estrogen metabolites and self-reported infertility in women infected with Schistosoma haematobium

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Santos, Júlio ^a   Gouveia, Maria João ^b   Vale, Nuno ^b   De Lurdes Delgado, Maria ^c   Gonçalves, Ana ^b   Da Silva, José M Teixeira ^b   Oliveira, Cristiano ^b   Xavier, Pedro ^b   Gomes, Paula ^b   Santos, Lúcio L ^a,d   Lopes, Carlos ^a,b   Barros, Alberto ^b,e   Rinaldi, Gabriel ^f,g   Brindley, Paul J ^f   Da Costa, José M Correia ^b,c   Sousa, Mário ^b   Botelho, Mónica C ^b,c  

^a Neurosurgery Service   (Angola)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Portugal)

^d PORTUGUESE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^e University of Porto   (Portugal)

^f GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^g UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL DERIVATIVE; CATECHOL ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA ADDUCT; ESTROGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGOLA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA ADDUCT; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; WORM EGG; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; URINARY TRACT; URINE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGOLA; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA ADDUCTS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SELF REPORT; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 84901327095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096774     Document Type: Article

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