Direct impression on agar surface as a diagnostic sampling procedure for candida balanitis

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-35

  Lisboa, Carmen ^a   Santos, António ^a   Azevedo, Filomena ^a   Pina Vaz, Cidália ^a   Rodrigues, Acácio Gonçalves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALANITIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA BALANITIS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENIS GLANS; PICHIA GUILLIERMONDII; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETHRA DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGAR; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALANITIS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE MEDIA; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENIS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77449084067     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2009.037820     Document Type: Article

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