Comparison of penile skin swab with intra-urethral swab and first void urine for polymerase chain reaction-based diagnosis of chlamydia trachomatis urethritis in male patients

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 999-1001

  Pittaras, Theodore E ^a,b   Papaparaskevas, Joseph ^a   Houhoula, Dimitra P ^a   Legakis, Nicholas J ^a   Frangouli, Efi ^b   Katsambas, Andreas ^a   Tsakris, Athanassios ^a   Papadogeorgakis, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ANDREAS SYGROS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PENILE SKIN SWAB; PHIMOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URETHRA; URETHRITIS; URINALYSIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PENIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINE;

BACTERIAL DNA;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PENIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; URETHRA; URETHRITIS; URINE;

EID: 58849146661     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318182a586     Document Type: Article

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