Anorectal and inguinal lymphogranuloma venereum among men who have sex with men in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Trends over time, symptomatology and concurrent infections

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 548-552

  De Vrieze, Nynke Hesselina Neeltje ^a   Van Rooijen, Martijn ^a   Van Der Loeff, Maarten Franciscus Schim ^a,b   De Vries, Henry John C ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CONSULTATION; GENITAL ULCER; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SMEAR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ANAL CANAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY (CLINICAL); HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INCIDENCE; INGUINAL CANAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; PATHOLOGY; COINFECTION;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY (CLINICAL); HIV; HOMOSEXUALITY; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM;

ADULT; ANAL CANAL; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COINFECTION; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INGUINAL CANAL; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84891517498     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2012-050915     Document Type: Article

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