2013 UK National Guideline for the management of lymphogranuloma venereum: Clinical Effectiveness Group of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (CEG/BASHH) Guideline development group

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 593-601

  White, John ^a   O'Farrell, Nigel ^b   Daniels, David ^c  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b EALING HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; SULFADIAZINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG COST; DYSPEPSIA; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INCUBATION TIME; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENITIS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALAISE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAPULE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PUSTULE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK REDUCTION; SEROLOGY; STOMACH PAIN; TENESMUS;

EID: 84887386020     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956462413482811     Document Type: Article

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