A case-control study of men with non-gonococcal urethritis at Auckland sexual health service: Rates of detection of Mycoplasma genitalium

Sexual Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-81

  Hilton, Jackie ^a   Azariah, Sunita ^a   Reid, Murray ^a  

^a GREEN LANE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

New Zealand

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAL URETHRITIS; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM STAINING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM URETHRITIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEW ZEALAND; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; URETHRITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77149177416     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH09092     Document Type: Article

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