Lymphogranuloma venereum: Old pathogen, new story

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-150

  Pathela, Preeti ^a   Blank, Susan ^b   Schillinger, Julia A ^b  

^a Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Disease Control   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN ETHYLSUCCINATE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANUS INTERCOURSE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GENITAL ULCER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PROCTOCOLITIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STAGING; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33947207530     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-007-0010-7     Document Type: Review

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