The etiology of genital ulcer disease by multiplex polymerase chain reaction and relationship to HIV infection among patients attending sexually transmitted disease clinics in Pune, India

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-62

  Risbud, Arun ^a   Chan Tack, Kirk ^b   Gadkari, Deepak ^a   Gangakhedkar, Raman R ^a   Shepherd, Mary E ^b   Bollinger, Robert ^b   Mehendale, Sanjay ^a   Gaydos, Charlotte ^b   Divekar, Anand ^a   Rompalo, Anne ^b   Quinn, Thomas C ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL AIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; GENITAL ULCER; GRANULOMA INGUINALE; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAGIN TEST; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ULCUS MOLLE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ASIA; BIOLOGY; CHANCROID; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EXAMINATIONS AND DIAGNOSES; GENITAL EFFECTS, FEMALE--ETIOLOGY; GENITALIA; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HIV INFECTIONS; INDIA; INFECTIONS; LABORATORY EXAMINATIONS AND DIAGNOSES; MEASUREMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOUTHERN ASIA; SYPHILIS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; VIRAL DISEASES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHANCROID; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS; ULCER;

EID: 0032895551     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199901000-00009     Document Type: Article

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