Mycoplasma genitalium infections in asymptomatic men and men with urethritis attending a sexually transmitted diseases clinic in New Orleans

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1167-1173

  Mena, Leandro ^a   Wang, Xiaofei ^a   Mroczkowski, Tomasz F ^a   Martin, David H ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URETHRITIS; URINE CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; URETHRITIS;

EID: 0037111652     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/343829     Document Type: Article

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