Mycoplasma genitalium infection in women attending a sexually transmitted infection clinic: Diagnostic specimen type, coinfections, and predictors

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 706-709

  Mobley, Victoria L ^a   Hobbs, Marcia M ^a   Lau, Karen ^a   Weinbaum, Barbara S ^b   Getman, Damon K ^b   Seña, Arlene C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Gen Probe Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM INFECTION; MYCOPLASMOSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRICHOMONIASIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865491034     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318255de03     Document Type: Article

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