Accuracy of clinical diagnosis of genital ulcer disease

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 184-189

  Dangor, Yusuf ^a,b   Ballard, Ronald C ^a,b   Da Exposto, Filomena L ^b   Fehler, Glenda ^a,b   Miller, Steven D ^a,b   Koornhof, Hendrik J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b South African Institute for Medical Research ^*  (Central African Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GENITAL HERPES; GENITAL ULCER; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HUMAN; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ULCUS MOLLE;

CHANCROID; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GRANULOMA INGUINALE; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HERPES GENITALIS; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SIMPLEXVIRUS; SYPHILIS; ULCER;

EID: 0025245364     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199010000-00007     Document Type: Article

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