Etiologic pattern of genital ulcers in Lusaka, Zambia: Has chancroid been eliminated?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 787-791

  Makasa, Mpundu ^a,b   Buve, Anne ^c   Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; OUTPATIENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ULCUS MOLLE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZAMBIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHANCROID; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HERPES GENITALIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ULCER; YOUNG ADULT; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84866657310     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31826ae97d     Document Type: Article

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