Characteristics of gonococci isolated from men with urethritis in Dubai

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-20

  Al Hattawi, K ^a   Ison, C A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLINASE; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; DUBAI; GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PLASMID; SEROTYPE;

EID: 0029923763     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800058908     Document Type: Article

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