Update on sexually transmitted mycoplasmas

Lancet

Volumn 351, Issue SUPPL.3, 1998, Pages 12-15

  Taylor Robinson, David ^a   Furr, Patricia M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 0032551210     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(98)90004-6     Document Type: Article

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