Syphilis: Guideline of the German STD Society for diagnosis and treatment;Syphilis: Leitlinie der DSTDG zur diagnostik und therapie

Hautarzt

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1084-1100

  Schofer H ^a   Brockmeyer, N H ^b   Hagedorn, H J ^b   Hamouda, O ^b   Handrick, W ^b   Krause, W ^b   Marcus, U ^b   Munstermann D ^b   Petry, K U ^b   Prange, H ^b   Potthoff, A ^b   Gross, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; BENZATHINE; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; BIPEN SAAR; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN ESTOLATE; ERYTHROMYCIN ETHYLSUCCINATE; ERYTHROMYCIN STEARATE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN G SODIUM; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROSYPHILIS; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 27744531370     PISSN: 00178470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00105-005-1044-0     Document Type: Review

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