Changes in the etiology of sexually transmitted diseases in botswana between 1993 and 2002: Implications for the clinical management of genital ulcer disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1304-1312

  Paz Bailey, Gabriela ^a,g   Rahman, Mafiz ^c   Chen, Cheng ^a   Ballard, Ronald ^a   Moffat, Howard J ^d   Kenyon, Tom ^a   Kilmarx, Peter H ^a,e   Totten, Patricia A ^b   Astete, Sabina ^b   Boily, Marie Claude ^f   Ryan, Caroline ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Department of HIV AIDS Prevention and Care   (Botswana)

^d PRINCESS MARINA HOSPITAL   (Botswana)

^e BOTUSA Project   (Botswana)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTSWANA; CANDIDA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; GONORRHEA; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HEALTH SURVEY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; ULCUS MOLLE;

ADULT; BOTSWANA; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; ULCER;

EID: 27444433828     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/496979     Document Type: Review

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