Prevalence of 7 sexually transmitted organisms by multiplex real-time PCR in Fallopian tube specimens collected from Saudi women with and without ectopic pregnancy

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ashshi, Ahmed Mohamed ^a   Batwa, Sarah Abdullah ^b   Kutbi, Seham Yahia ^b   Malibary, Faizah Ahmed ^b   Batwa, Mohamed ^c   Refaat, Bassem ^a  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Kingdom of Saudi Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Al Thager General Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Ectopic pregnancy; Herpes simplex virus; Multiplex PCR; Mycoplasma genitalium; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; MULTIPLEX REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; UTERINE TUBE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; FALLOPIAN TUBE; GENETICS; GONORRHEA; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PREGNANCY; SAUDI ARABIA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UREAPLASMA;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COINFECTION; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HUMANS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UREAPLASMA;

EID: 84949681835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-1313-1     Document Type: Article

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