Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a frequent infection in sexually active young women
and results in adverse sequelae, including tubal-factor infertility and ectopic pregnancy. In …

Tubal and peritoneal disease are the main causes of infertility. Tubal pathology can be
either congenital malformation or acquired, proximal or distal, unilateral or bilateral and …

OBJECTIVES: The specific aims of this study were (1) to describe the microbiologic
characteristics of patients with acute salpingitis and (2) to determine the incidence of …

The objective of the study was to compare the efficacy of azithromycin, alone or with
metronidazole, versus two standard multidrug regimens for the treatment of acute pelvic …

The major anaerobically induced outer membrane protein (AniA) from pathogenic Neisseria
gonorrhoeae is essential for cell growth under oxygen limiting conditions in the presence of …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is generally considered to be an obligate aerobe; it can, however,
grow in the absence of oxygen by anaerobic respiration by using nitrite as a terminal …

The purpose of this report is to evaluate the association between lower genital tract
inflammation and objectively diagnosed endometritis. We analyzed the first 157 patients …

The aniA gene of Neisseria gonorrhoeae encodes an outer membrane lipoprotein which is
strongly induced when gonococci are grown anaerobically in vitro in the presence of nitrite …

Acute surgical emergencies of gynecologic origin occur for the most part in women of
reproductive age but occasionally in newborn and adolescent patients and rarely in the …

Study Design: A case-control study of 234 women with PID treated at San Francisco General
Hospital between October 1986 and August 1989 and 122 controls attending the Women's …