Editorial: Azithromycin resistance in treponema pallidum

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 777-778

  Mabey, David ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EDITORIAL; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MADAGASCAR; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NOTE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MADAGASCAR; MUTATION; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 73949083503     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181bd0fdd     Document Type: Editorial

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