Rectal Chlamydia in heterosexual women: More questions than answers

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 587-592

  Ding, Alvin ^a   Challenor, Rachel ^a  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlamydia load; Chlamydia trachomatis; heterosexual women; rectal; sexual behaviour; sexually transmitted infection

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COITUS; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CONDOM USE; CONTAMINATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM DISEASE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; GENETICS; HETEROSEXUALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; SEXUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; SEXUAL PARTNERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902166098     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: 17581052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956462413515637     Document Type: Article

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