Detecting of Mycoplasma genitalium in male patients with urethritis symptoms in Turkey by polymerase chain reaction

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 64-68

  Dolapci, Istar ^a   Tekeli, Alper ^a   Ozsan, Murat ^a   Yaman, Onder ^a   Ergin, Sureyya ^a   Elhan, Atilla ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URETHRITIS; URINALYSIS;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TURKEY; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URETHRITIS; URINE;

EID: 14944380010     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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