Molecular typing of treponema pallidum causing early syphilis in China: A cross-sectional study

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-45

  Peng, Rui Rui ^a   Yin, Yue Ping ^a   Wei, Wan Hui ^a   Wang, Hong Chun ^a   Zhu, Bang Yong ^b   Liu, Quan Zhong ^c   Zheng, He Ping ^d   Zhang, Jin Ping ^a   Huang, Shu Jie ^e   Chen, Xiang Sheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY   (China)

^b Department of Laboratory   (China)

^c TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and STD Control   (China)

^e Jiangmen Institute of Dermatology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHINA; CONDYLOMA LATUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MUCOSA; MUCOSAL PATCH; PAPULE; PROSTITUTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TANDEM REPEAT; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 83555176198     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318232697d     Document Type: Article

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