Lymphogranuloma venereum presenting as perianal ulceration: An emerging clinical presentation?

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 123-124

  Singhrao, Tajinder ^a   Higham, Elizabeth ^a   French, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; FEVER; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; GONORRHEA; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM ULCER; SEROTYPE; TREATMENT DURATION; UNSAFE SEX;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FISSURE IN ANO; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCTITIS; RECTUM;

EID: 79952108054     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2010.047019     Document Type: Article

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