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The prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection among Saudi women attending the infertility clinic in Central Saudi Arabia

Dunia A. Alfarraj, Ali M. Somily, Rasheed M. Alssum, Zeinab M. Abotalib, Amal A. El-Sayed and Hazim H. Al-Mandeel
Saudi Medical Journal January 2015, 36 (1) 61-66; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.1.9967
Dunia A. Alfarraj
From the Department of Botany and Microbiology (Alfarraj, Alssum), College of Science, the Departments of Pathology/Microbiology (Somily), Obstetrics and Gynecology (Abotalib, El-Sayed, Al-Mandeel), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Ali M. Somily
From the Department of Botany and Microbiology (Alfarraj, Alssum), College of Science, the Departments of Pathology/Microbiology (Somily), Obstetrics and Gynecology (Abotalib, El-Sayed, Al-Mandeel), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Rasheed M. Alssum
From the Department of Botany and Microbiology (Alfarraj, Alssum), College of Science, the Departments of Pathology/Microbiology (Somily), Obstetrics and Gynecology (Abotalib, El-Sayed, Al-Mandeel), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Zeinab M. Abotalib
From the Department of Botany and Microbiology (Alfarraj, Alssum), College of Science, the Departments of Pathology/Microbiology (Somily), Obstetrics and Gynecology (Abotalib, El-Sayed, Al-Mandeel), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Amal A. El-Sayed
From the Department of Botany and Microbiology (Alfarraj, Alssum), College of Science, the Departments of Pathology/Microbiology (Somily), Obstetrics and Gynecology (Abotalib, El-Sayed, Al-Mandeel), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Hazim H. Al-Mandeel
From the Department of Botany and Microbiology (Alfarraj, Alssum), College of Science, the Departments of Pathology/Microbiology (Somily), Obstetrics and Gynecology (Abotalib, El-Sayed, Al-Mandeel), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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vol. 36 no. 1 61-66
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.1.9967
PubMed 
25630006

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 22, 2014
  • Accepted November 23, 2014
  • Published online January 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Dunia A. Alfarraj, PhD⇑,
  2. Ali M. Somily, MD, FRCPC,
  3. Rasheed M. Alssum, PhD,
  4. Zeinab M. Abotalib, MD,
  5. Amal A. El-Sayed, MD and
  6. Hazim H. Al-Mandeel, MD
  1. From the Department of Botany and Microbiology (Alfarraj, Alssum), College of Science, the Departments of Pathology/Microbiology (Somily), Obstetrics and Gynecology (Abotalib, El-Sayed, Al-Mandeel), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Dunia A. Alfarraj, Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, PO Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: dualfarraj{at}yahoo.com
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Saudi Medical Journal Jan 2015, 36 (1) 61-66; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2015.1.9967
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