Azithromycin for rectal chlamydia: Is it time to leave azithromycin on the shelf?..Not yet

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 86-88

  Jordan, Stephen J ^a   Geisler, William M ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDITORIAL; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PREVALENCE; PROCTITIS; RECTAL CHLAMYDIA; REINFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; DOXYCYCLINE; HUMANS; MALE; RECTAL DISEASES;

EID: 84893004720     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000092     Document Type: Editorial

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