Efficacy and safety of azithromycin versus lymecyline in the treatment of genital chlamydial infections in women

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 451-454

  Brihmer, Christina ^a   Mårdh, Per Anders ^b   Kallings, Ingegerd ^c   Osser, Stellan ^d   Röbech, Marcus ^e   Sikstrom B O ^e   Wanger, Lena ^a  

^a DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e Department of Mammography   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; LYMECYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; LEUKORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; NAUSEA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; URTICARIA; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VOMITING; VULVA PRURITUS;

EID: 0029844356     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365549609037938     Document Type: Article

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