Clinical predictors of rectal lymphogranuloma venereum infection: Results from a multicentre case-control study in the UK

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 269-274

  Pallawela, S N S ^a   Sullivan, A K ^a   Macdonald, N ^b   French, P ^c   White, J ^d   Dean, G ^e   Smith, A ^f   Winter, A J ^g   Mandalia, S ^b   Alexander, S ^h   Ison, C ^h   Ward, Helen ^b  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRAL AND NORTH WEST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

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

^e Worthing Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g Sandyford Sexual Health Services   (United Kingdom)

^h PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSURIA; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTAL LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENESMUS; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URETHRAL DISCHARGE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CLINICAL PREDICTORS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MSM; PROCTITIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSTIPATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN; PROCTITIS; PROCTOSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84901948225     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051401     Document Type: Article

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