Azithromycin treatment failure among primary and secondary syphilis patients in Shanghai

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 726-729

  Zhou, Pingyu ^a   Li, Kang ^a   Lu, Haikong ^a   Qian, Yihong ^a   Gu, Xin ^a   Gong, Weiming ^a   Tucker, Joseph D ^b   Cohen, Myron S ^c  

^a Shanghai Skin Disease and STD Hospital   (China)

^b Venereology Center   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; MACROLIDE; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; RNA 23S;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BISEXUALITY; CHINA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MICROSCOPY; MUCOSAL DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAGIN TEST; SECONDARY SYPHILIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPIROCHETE; SYPHILIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ULCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHINA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYPHILIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149282685     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181e2c753     Document Type: Article

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