The performance of microscopic cervicitis for the detection of chlamydial infection [1]

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 415-

  Manavi, K ^a   Conlan, R ^a   Barrie, G ^a  

^a NHS LOTHIAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LETTER; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNIQUE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHIL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; STANDARD;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICROSCOPY; NEUTROPHILS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 6344228122     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2004.010082     Document Type: Letter

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