Highly variable use of diagnostic methods for sexually transmitted infections-results of a nationwide survey, Germany 2005

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gilsdorf, Andreas ^a,b   Hofmann, Alexandra ^b   Hamouda, Osamah ^b   Bremer, Viviane ^b  

^a Field Epidemiology Training Program   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GERMANY; GONORRHEA; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; UROLOGY; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GERMANY; GONORRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SYPHILIS;

EID: 77950922411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-98     Document Type: Article

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