• Hosp. Pract. (Off. Ed.) · Apr 1994

    PID prevention: clinical and societal stakes.

    • S D Hillis.
    • Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.
    • Hosp. Pract. (Off. Ed.). 1994 Apr 15; 29 (4): 121-4, 129-30.

    AbstractPelvic inflammatory disease continues to take its physical, psychological, and financial tolls. Prompt treatment of symptomatic disease and screening of asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic women for the major causative organism--Chlamydia trachomatis--are the keys to preventing serious sequelae, such as chronic pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy, and infertility.

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