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Female Genital Tuberculosis Likely Cause Of Infertility In High-Risk Areas

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 12th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Genital tuberculosis carries a high risk of infertility in women, researchers in Iran found.

Behineh Namavar Jahromi and colleagues at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Shiraz conducted a study to "evaluate the rate of diagnosed female genital tuberculosis and its presentational symptoms and methods of diagnosis."

In the vast majority of patients, genital tuberculosis was diagnosed while searching for the causes of infertility, Jahromi and coworkers said.

The researchers reviewed data from 41 women with diagnoses of genital tuberculosis in the Fars Province Health Center between...

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