First case of urethritis due to Chlamydia trachomatis genovar L2b [8]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 268-269

  Herida, Magid ^a   Kreplack, Georges ^b   Cardon, Bernard ^b   Desenclos, Jean Claude ^a   De Barbeyrac, Bertille ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^b Laboratoire du Chemin ^*

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENOTYPE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URETHRA; URETHRITIS; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; URETHRITIS;

EID: 33745686073     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505310     Document Type: Letter

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