TY - JOUR AU - Torondel, Belen AU - Sinha, Shalini AU - Mohanty, Jyoti Ranjan AU - Swain, Tapoja AU - Sahoo, Pranati AU - Panda, Bijaya AU - Nayak, Arati AU - Bara, Mary AU - Bilung, Bibiana AU - Cumming, Oliver AU - Panigrahi, Pinaki AU - Das, Padmalaya PY - 2018 DA - 2018/09/21 TI - Association between unhygienic menstrual management practices and prevalence of lower reproductive tract infections: a hospital-based cross-sectional study in Odisha, India JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 473 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - The extent to which reproductive tract infections (RTIs) are associated with poor menstrual hygiene management (MHM) practices has not been extensively studied. We aimed to determine whether poor menstrual hygiene practices were associated with three common infections of the lower reproductive tract; Bacterial vaginosis (BV), Candida, and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV). SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3384-2 DO - 10.1186/s12879-018-3384-2 ID - Torondel2018 ER -