Focus on chlamydia

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 251-252

  Low, Nicola ^a   Ward, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 34547751920     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2007.026898     Document Type: Editorial

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