The role of Mycoplasma genitalium and Ureaplasma urealyticum biovar 2 in postgonococcal urethritis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 866-871

  Yokoi, Shigeaki ^a   Maeda, Shin Ichi ^b   Kubota, Yasuaki ^b   Tamaki, Masayoshi ^b   Mizutani, Kohsuke ^a   Yasuda, Mitsuru ^a   Ito, Shin Ichi ^a   Nakano, Masahiro ^a   Ehara, Hidetoshi ^a   Deguchi, Takashi ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOYOTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOTYPE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEUTROPHIL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMEAR; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URINALYSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIASIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; GONORRHEA; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; URETHRITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COHORT STUDIES; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URETHRITIS;

EID: 34848895439     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521266     Document Type: Article

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