Rectal lymphogranuloma venereum, France [5]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 505-506

  Herida, Magid ^a   Sednaoui, Patrice ^b   Couturier, Elisabeth ^a   Neau, Didier ^c   Clerc, Maïthe ^d   Scieux, Catherine ^e   Kreplak, Gerard ^f   Goulet, Véronique ^a   Hamers, Françoise F ^a   De Barbeyrac, Bertille ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^b INSTITUT ALFRED FOURNIER   (France)

^c HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^f Laboratoire du Chemin Vert ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FRANCE; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCTITIS; RECTUM DISEASE;

EID: 20044377925     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1103.040621     Document Type: Letter

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