Do women need screening for extragenital gonococcal and chlamydial infections?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 240-242

  Dombrowski, Julia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE;

ANAL INTERCOURSE; ANILINGUS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; EXTRAGENITAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MASS SCREENING; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN AND WOMEN; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHARYNGITIS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RECTAL INFECTION; RECTUM DISEASE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; RECTAL DISEASES;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; RECTAL DISEASES;

EID: 84928536618     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000267     Document Type: Editorial

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