Home sampling and pooling of vaginal samples are effective tools for genetic screening of Chlamydia trachomatis among high school female students in Lithuania

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 88-93

  Kucinskiene, Vesta ^a   Juseviciute, Violeta ^b   Valiukeviciene, Skaidra ^a   Milasauskiene, Zemyna ^a   Unemo, Magnus ^c   Domeika, Marius ^d  

^a Kaunas University of Medicine   (Sweden)

^b Kaunas Public Health Centre   (Sweden)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONSULTATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MASS SCREENING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; SELF CARE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STUDENTS; VAGINAL DISEASES; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 38149134510     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540701587002     Document Type: Article

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