The detection of urethritis pathogens among patients with the male urethritis syndrome, genital ulcer syndrome and HIV voluntary counselling and testing clients: Should South Africa's syndromic management approach be revised?

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 254-258

  Black, V ^a,f   Magooa, P ^b   Radebe, F ^b   Myers, M ^a   Pillay, C ^b   Lewis, D A ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; GENITAL ULCER; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; URETHRA; URETHRITIS;

CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COUNSELING; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GONORRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; SYNDROME; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS; URETHRITIS;

EID: 49049101887     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2007.028464     Document Type: Article

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