Failure of penicillin treatment of yaws on Karkar Island, Papua New Guinea

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 388-392

  Backhouse, Josephine L ^a   Hudson, Bernie J ^b   Hamilton, Peter A ^c   Nesteroff, Serge I ^a  

^a Western Sydney Area Health Service   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Gaubin Lutheran Hospital   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; RECURRENT INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST; YAWS;

EID: 0031681298     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1998.59.388     Document Type: Article

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