Nonspecific urethritis and reactive arthritis

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 469-475

  Galadari, Ibrahim ^a   Galadari, Hassan ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; OFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; REITER SYNDROME; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINALYSIS; VAGINITIS;

ARTHRITIS, REACTIVE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; URETHRITIS;

EID: 10944229995     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2004.07.010     Document Type: Article

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