Use of nucleic acid amplification tests in investigating child sexual abuse

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 153-154

  Hammerschlag, M R ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD ABUSE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDITORIAL; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GONORRHEA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL ABUSE; URINALYSIS; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0034950326     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.77.3.153     Document Type: Editorial

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