Community-based urine screening for Chlamydia trachomatis with a ligase chain reaction assay

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 796-803

  Marrazzo, Jeanne M ^a,b   White, Christine L ^a,b   Krekeler, Barbara ^a,c   Celum, Connie L ^a,c   Lafferty, William E ^a,d   Stamm, Walter E ^a,e   Handsfield, H Hunter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Mailstop 359928   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMMUNITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTURIA; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0030709375     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-127-9-199711010-00004     Document Type: Article

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