A review on infection with Chlamydia trachomatis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 941-951

  Manavi, Kaveh ^a  

^a Department of Genitourinary Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chlamydia; diagnosis methods; nucleic acid amplification tests; screening; single dose therapy

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN STEARATE; JOSAMYCIN; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ROXITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPIDIDYMITIS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; ORCHITIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SYMPTOM; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; CONTACT TRACING; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MACROLIDES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PENICILLINS; QUINOLONES; TETRACYCLINES;

EID: 37849187731     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2006.06.003     Document Type: Review

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