National guideline for the management of epididymo-orchitis

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 75, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages

  Walker, Paul ^a   Wilson, Janet ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EPIDIDYMITIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; ORCHITIS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TORSION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; EPIDIDYMITIS; HUMANS; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OFLOXACIN; ORCHITIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 0344132020     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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