Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 1 , Pages 91-95 , January 2009

Chlamydia trachomatis infection in women with secondary infertility

  • Abida Malik, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Abida Malik, M.D., Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Medical Road, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh 202002, India.
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  • Suchitra Jain, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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  • Meher Rizvi, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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  • Indu Shukla, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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  • Seema Hakim, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

Received 24 December 2006 ,Revised 29 May 2007 ,Accepted 31 May 2007.

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 Presented at the 12th International Congress of Infectious Diseases, Lisbon, Portugal, June 15–18, 2006.

PII: S0015-0282(07)01246-0

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.05.070

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