Sexually transmitted diseases in men who have sex with men: A clinical review

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-144

  Klausner, Jeffrey D ^a   Wong, William ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; BENZOIN; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DICHLOROACETIC ACID; DIIODOHYDROXYQUIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN ETHYLSUCCINATE; FAMCICLOVIR; IMIQUIMOD; INTERFERON; LEVOFLOXACIN; LIQUID NITROGEN; METRONIDAZOLE; NITAZOXANIDE; OFLOXACIN; PAROMOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PODOPHYLLIN; PODOPHYLLOTOXIN; PROBENECID; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALACICLOVIR;

AMEBIASIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDYLOMA; CREAM; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES CULTURE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEUROSYPHILIS; NONHUMAN; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REAGIN TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLOSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYPHILIS; TINCTURE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST; VIRUS ISOLATION; WART VIRUS;

EID: 1842675337     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-003-0050-6     Document Type: Review

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