Clinical update: syphilis in adults

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9577, 2007, Pages 1912-1914

  Wöhrl, Stefan ^a   Geusau, Alexandra ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PENICILLIN G; PROCAINE PENICILLIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY TEST; MICROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSYPHILIS; OUTPATIENT CARE; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 34249913429     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60895-2     Document Type: Note

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