Multiplex PCR testing detection of higher-than-expected rates of cervical Mycoplasma, Ureaplasma, and Trichomonas and viral agent infections in sexually active australian women

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1358-1363

  McIver, Christopher J ^a,b   Rismanto, Nikolas ^a   Smith, Catherine ^a   Zin, Wai Naing ^a   Rayner, Ben ^a   Lusk, M Josephine ^c   Konecny, Pamela ^b,c   White, Peter A ^b   Rawlinson, William D ^a,b  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TRICHOMONAS; UREAPLASMA; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VIRUSES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 2; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B'; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 66149123203     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01873-08     Document Type: Article

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