Clinical presentation of Mycoplasma genitalium infection versus Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection among women with pelvic inflammatory disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-47

  Short, Vanessa L ^a,c   Totten, Patricia A ^b   Ness, Roberta B ^a   Astete, Sabina G ^b   Kelsey, Sheryl F ^a   Haggerty, Catherine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM INFECTION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT INFORMATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPURATION; UTERINE CERVICITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIC PAIN; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINA;

EID: 57749119635     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/594123     Document Type: Article

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