Nongonococcal urethritis: A few answers but mostly questions

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 333-335

  Handsfield, H Hunter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; RNA 16S; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EDITORIAL; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MORBIDITY; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; PATIENT COUNSELING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; URETHRITIS;

EID: 31044432374     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499437     Document Type: Editorial

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