Mycoplasma genitalium: From chrysalis to multicolored butterfly

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 498-514

  Taylor Robinson, David ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Skov ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL MOTILITY; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; ENDOMETRITIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFERTILITY; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NONHUMAN; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS; SALPINGITIS; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINITIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS;

MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM;

EID: 79960130072     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00006-11     Document Type: Article

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