Nosocomial transmission of syphilis during haemodialysis in a developing country

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 88-92

  Saxena, Anil K ^a   Panhotra, B R ^a   Naguib, Mohammed ^a   Uzzaman, Wahid ^a   Al Mulhim, Khalifa ^a  

^a KING FAHAD HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; REAGIN TEST; SCREENING TEST; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; SYMPTOM; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLINS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SAUDI ARABIA; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0036194950     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540110077353     Document Type: Article

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