Major improvements in cost effectiveness of screening women for Chlamydia trachomatis using pooled urine specimens and high performance testing [4]

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 74-75

  Morre S A ^a   Welte, R ^a   Postma, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 0036194269     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.78.1.74     Document Type: Letter

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