Risk factors and characteristics of patients with gonorrhoea presenting to Auckland Sexual Health Service, New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1252, 2007, Pages

  Azariah, Sunita ^a   Perkins, Nicky ^a  

^a GREEN LANE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONDOM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEW ZEALAND; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX; PREVALENCE; RACE; RECTUM; SEX RATIO; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS; URETHRA; UTERINE CERVIX; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CERVIX UTERI; CIPROFLOXACIN; CONDOMS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEW ZEALAND; PHARYNX; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEXUALITY; URETHRA;

EID: 34249306585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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