Do all women attending urban sexual health services need testing for gonorrhoea?

Sexual Health

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 259-260

  Read, Tim R H ^a   Chen, Marcus Y ^a   Bradshaw, Catriona S ^a,b   Beneragama, Sriyakantha ^c   Fairley, Christopher K ^a,b  

^a MELBOURNE SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c National STD/AIDS Control Programme   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LETTER; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TIME; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; VICTORIA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33644851473     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH05029     Document Type: Article

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