Pharyngeal gonorrhea: An important reservoir of infection?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1798-1800

  Weinstock, Hillard ^b   Workowski, Kimberly A ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; ORAL SEXUAL CONTACT; PHARYNGITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

GONORRHEA; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHARYNX; URETHRA;

EID: 72049121868     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648428     Document Type: Note

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