Trends in the prevalence of pathogens causing urethritis in Asturias, Spain, 1989-2000

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 280-283

  Varela, José A ^a   Otero, Luis ^b   García, María José ^c   Palacio, Virgilio ^c   Carreño, Francisco ^c   Cuesta, Mar ^c   Sánchez, Carmen ^a   Vázquez, Fernando ^c,d  

^a Servicio de Dermatologia y ETS   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE CABUEÑES   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL MONTE NARANCO   (Spain)

^d Inst U   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; MACROLIDE; NITROIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPAIN; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SPAIN; URETHRITIS;

EID: 0345701542     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-200304000-00002     Document Type: Article

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