The etiology of acute nongonococcal urethritis-the enigma of idiopathic urethritis?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 187-189

  Horner, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC URETHRITIS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URETHRITIS;

HUMANS; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URETHRITIS;

EID: 79951675228     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318207c2eb     Document Type: Editorial

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