The management of uncomplicated adult gonococcal infection: Should test of cure still be routine in patients attending genitourinary medicine clinics?

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 453-458

  Harry, Tubonye C ^a  

^a JAMES PAGET UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial susceptibility; Diagnosis; Gonorrhoea; Test of cure; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDYLOMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS; GONORRHEA; GRAM STAINING; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; WART VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CANDIDIASIS; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; CONTACT TRACING; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; GREAT BRITAIN; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; URETHRITIS; VAGINITIS;

EID: 3242659907     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0956462041211252     Document Type: Article

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