Recalibrating the gram stain diagnosis of male urethritis in the era of nucleic acid amplification testing

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-20

  Rietmeijer, Cornelis A ^a,b   Mettenbrink, Christie J ^a  

^a DENVER PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Global Health and Health Disparities   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DYSURIA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GONORRHEA; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; URETHRA; URETHRITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COLORADO; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GENTIAN VIOLET; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHENAZINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; URETHRITIS;

EID: 83555166141     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3182354da3     Document Type: Article

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