Genital Chlamydial Infections

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 2424-2430

  Peipert, Jeffrey F ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Research Women and Infants Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN ETHYLSUCCINATE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; OFLOXACIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY TEST; PATIENT COUNSELING; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URETHRITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0348011697     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp030542     Document Type: Article

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