Bacterial vaginosis in female facility workers in north-western Tanzania: prevalence and risk factors.

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Published in Sex Transm Infect on May 26, 2009

Authors

K Baisley1, J Changalucha, H A Weiss, K Mugeye, D Everett, I Hambleton, P Hay, D Ross, C Tanton, T Chirwa, R Hayes, D Watson-Jones

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1: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. kathy.baisley@lshtm.ac.uk

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