Macrolide resistance and molecular types of treponema pallidum causing primary syphilis in shanghai, china

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 515-521

  Martin, Irene E ^a   Gu, Weiming ^b   Yang, ^b   Tsang, Raymond S W ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b Shanghai Skin Disease and STD Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MACROLIDE; RNA 23S;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD SAMPLING; BMP GENE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ARP; GENE MUTATION; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLA GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYPHILIS; TPP 47 GENE; TPR GENE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHINA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651095589     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/600878     Document Type: Article

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