Comparison of the Effect of Vaginal Zataria multiflora Cream and Oral Metronidazole Pill on Results of Treatments for Vaginal Infections including Trichomoniasis and Bacterial Vaginosis in Women of Reproductive Age

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Abdali, Khadijeh ^a   Jahed, Leila ^b   Amooee, Sedigheh ^a   Zarshenas, Mahnaz ^a   Tabatabaee, Hamidreza ^a   Bekhradi, Reza ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b DEZFUL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Clinical Trials Department Barij Essence Company   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; LEUCOREX; METRONIDAZOLE; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; OINTMENT; PLANT EXTRACT; TABLET;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METALLIC TASTE; NAUSEA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN IRRITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINAL IRRITATION; VAGINAL PRURITUS; VAGINITIS; ZATARIA MULTIFLORA; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LAMIACEAE; MICROBIOLOGY; OINTMENT; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REPRODUCTION; TABLET; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMIACEAE; METRONIDAZOLE; OINTMENTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; REPRODUCTION; TABLETS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84938634323     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/683640     Document Type: Article

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