Syndromic management for sexually transmitted diseases: Back to the drawing board

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 423-434

  Hudson, C P ^a,b  

^a City Health Department   (South Africa)

^b 53 Marble Arch ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ALGORITHM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONDOM; CONDYLOMA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENITAL ULCER; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; NEGRO; NEUROSYPHILIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; URETHRITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CONDYLOMATA ACUMINATA; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0033041797     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0956462991914348     Document Type: Review

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