The prevalence of urethral and rectal Mycoplasma genitalium and its associations in men who have sex with men attending a genitourinary medicine clinic

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-24

  Soni, Suneeta ^a   Alexander, S ^b   Verlander, N ^b   Saunders, P ^b   Richardson, D ^a   Fisher, M ^a   Ison, C ^b  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RECTUM INFECTION; SCREENING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URETHRA; URETHRITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENGLAND; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; URETHRITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77449102870     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2009.038190     Document Type: Article

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