Lymphogranuloma venereum in men screened for pharyngeal and rectal infection, Germany

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 488-492

  Haar, Karin ^a   Dudareva Vizule, Sandra ^a,b   Wisplinghoff, Hilmar ^c,d   Wisplinghoff, Fabian ^d   Sailer, Andrea ^a   Jansen, Klaus ^a   Henrich, Birgit ^e   Marcus, Ulrich ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d Laboratoriumsmedizin Köln Dres med Wisplinghoff and Colleagues   (Germany)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MASS SCREENING; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHARYNGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ANAL SEX; BACTERIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GERMANY; HIV; INFECTION; LGV; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MEN HAVING SEX WITH MEN; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MSM; PHARYNGEAL; RECTAL; SCREENING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION; STD; STI;

ADULT; AGED; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874255907     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1903.121028     Document Type: Article

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