Laboratory diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections in Belarus

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-65

  Pankratov, Oleg ^a   Shimanskaya, Iryna ^a   Pankratov, Valentin ^b   Navrotsky, Alexandr ^b   Ballard, Ronald ^c   Unemo, Magnus ^d   Domeika, Marius ^e  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS   (Belarus)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CARDIOLIPIN; METHYLENE BLUE;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BELARUS; CANDIDIASIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; GENITAL HERPES; GIEMSA STAIN; GONORRHEA; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; MALE; MICROPRECIPITATION REACTION TEST; MICROSCOPY; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM IMMOBILIZATION TEST; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UREAPLASMA INFECTION; VAGINITIS;

HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 78751536709     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0982     Document Type: Letter

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