Patient-administered tampon-collected genital cells in the assessment of Chlamydia trachomatis infection using polymerase chain reaction

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 494-497

  Tabrizi, Sepehr N ^a   Chen, Shujun ^a   Borg, Anthony J ^a   Lees, Maxwell I ^a   Fairley, C K ^b   Jackson, Helen D ^a   Gust, Claudine H ^a   Migliorini, Geoff ^a   Garland, Suzanne M ^a  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXIMIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TAMPON; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

EID: 0029850275     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199611000-00010     Document Type: Article

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