W Cates Jr, RT Rolfs Jr, SO Aral - Epidemiologic Reviews, 1990 - Soc Epidemiolc Res BACKGROUND History A relation between gonorrhea, pelvic in- flammatory disease, and tubal
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DE Moore, HM Foy, JR Daling, JT Grayston, LR … - The Lancet, 1982 - Elsevier 186 infertile women underwent standard infertility investigations (including hysterosalpingography
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R Platt, PA Rice, WM McCormack - JAMA, 1983 - Am Med Assoc We determined the conditions of 26 women who had recently been exposed to Neisseria
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