Short report: Simultaneous detection of seven sexually transmitted agents in human immunodeficiency virus-infected Brazilian women by multiplex polymerase chain reaction

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1199-1202

  Souza, Raquel P ^a   De Abreu, André L P ^a   Ferreira, Érika C ^a   Rocha Brischiliari, Sheila C ^a   De Carvalho, Maria D B ^a   Pelloso, Sandra M ^a   Bonini, Marcelo G ^a,b   Gimenes, Fabrícia ^a   Consolaro, Marcia E L ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; PRIMER DNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; COMPLICATION; GENETICS; HIV INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; METHODOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAZIL; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 84890411961     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0315     Document Type: Article

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