Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among healthy Korean women: Implications of multiplex PCR pathogen detection on antibiotic therapy

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 74-76

  Kim, Yoonjung ^a   Kim, Juwon ^a   Lee, Kyung A ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Human papillomaviruS.; Polymerase chain reaction; Sexually transmitted infectionS.

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; VIRUS DNA; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS DNA TEST; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS INFECTION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UREAPLASMA INFECTION; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; WART VIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; SOUTH KOREA; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL;

EID: 84903694989     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: 14377780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiac.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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