Chlamydia trachomatis

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 82, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2006, Pages

  Carder, Caroline ^a,c   Mercey, D ^b   Benn, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Camden Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL CRIME; SHORT SURVEY; TISSUE CULTURE; UNSAFE SEX; URINALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RECTAL DISEASES; SEX OFFENSES; URETHRAL DISEASES; UTERINE CERVICAL DISEASES; VAGINAL DISEASES;

EID: 33845906591     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2006.023069     Document Type: Short Survey

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