Diagnostic and clinical implications of anorectal lymphogranuloma venereum in men who have sex with men: A retrospective case-control study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 186-194

  Van Der Bij, Akke K ^a   Spaargaren, Joke ^a   Morré, Servaas Å ^a   Fennema, Han S A ^a   Mindel, Adrian ^d   Coutinho, Roel A ^a,b,c   De Vries, Henry J C ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPIDEMIC; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECTOSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SMEAR;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 30144432721     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498904     Document Type: Article

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