High prevalence of genital mycoplasmas among sexually active young adults with urethritis or cervicitis symptoms in La Crosse, Wisconsin

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 4636-4640

  Schlicht, Michael J ^a,b   Lovrich, Steven D ^a   Sartin, Jeffrey S ^a   Karpinsky, Patricia ^b   Callister, Steven M ^a   Agger, William A ^a  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES; UREAPLASMA; URETHRA; URETHRITIS; URINE; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; URETHRITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; WISCONSIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMATALES; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; UREAPLASMA;

EID: 5444273455     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.10.4636-4640.2004     Document Type: Article

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