Diagnostic tests for chlamydial and gonorrheal infections

Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 192-198

  Olshen, Elyse ^a,b   Shrier, Lydia A ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONJUNCTIVA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; GRAM STAINING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MASS SCREENING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; OROPHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; VAGINA SMEAR;

EID: 22244464884     PISSN: 10451870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.spid.2005.04.008     Document Type: Article

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