High prevalence of macrolide resistant Treponema pallidum strains in a London centre

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 486-488

  Tipple, Craig ^a   McClure, Myra O ^a   Taylor, Graham P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROLIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL MISCONDUCT; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMATOSIS; ULCER; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MACROLIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052954510     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050082     Document Type: Article

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