Chlamydia screening: Which sample for which technique?

Genitourinary Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-102

  Stary, Angelika ^a  

^a Outpatients' Centre for Diagnosis of Infectious Venero Dermatological Diseases   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030913663     PISSN: 02664348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.73.2.99     Document Type: Short Survey

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