The use of serological titres of IgA and IgG in (early) discrimination between rectal infection with non-lymphogranuloma venereum and lymphogranuloma venereum serovars of Chlamydia trochomotis

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 330-334

  Van Der Snoek, Eric M ^a   Ossewaarde, Jacobus M ^a   Van Der Meijden, Willem I ^a   Mulder, Paul G H ^a   Thio, H Bing ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RECTUM DISEASE; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BISEXUALITY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GENOTYPE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCTITIS; RECTAL DISEASES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547808881     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2006.024372     Document Type: Article

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