Molecular subtyping of Treponema pallidum in an Arizona County with increasing syphilis morbidity: Use of specimens from ulcers and blood

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 183, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1601-1606

  Sutton, Madeline Y ^a   Liu, Hsi ^a   Steiner, Bret ^a   Pillay, Allan ^a   Mickey, Thomas ^b   Finelli, Lyn ^a   Morse, Stephen ^a   Markowitz, Lauri E ^a   St Louis, Michael E ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Maricopa County Department of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORBIDITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; DNA POLYMERASE I; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENITALIA; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; SKIN ULCER; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0035370290     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320698     Document Type: Article

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