Association of Ureaplasma urealyticum (Biovar 2) with Nongonococcal Urethritis

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 192-195

  Deguchi, Takashi ^a   Yoshida, Takashi ^b   Miyazawa, Takamaro ^b   Yasuda, Mitsuru ^a   Tamaki, Masayoshi ^c   Ishiko, Hiroaki ^b   Maeda, Shin Ichi ^c  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b M K Bio Clin Laboratories Inc   (Japan)

^c TOYOTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; PREVALENCE; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URETHRA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URETHRITIS;

EID: 1342266039     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.OLQ.0000114653.26951.71     Document Type: Article

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