Plastic specula: Can we ease the passage?

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 263-264

  Kozakis, L ^a   Vuddamalay, J ^a   Munday, P ^a  

^a WATFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EMULSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICIAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GELS; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; LUBRICATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PLASTICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 33745142899     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2005.016980     Document Type: Article

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