Screening for chlamydia

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7752, 2010, Pages 875-

  Sheringham, Jessica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SCREENING TEST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77951544472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c1642     Document Type: Editorial

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