Successful combination of nucleic acid amplification test diagnostics and targeted deferred Neisseria gonorrhoeae culture

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1884-1890

  Wind, Carolien M ^a,b   De Vries, Henry J C ^a,b,c   Van Der Loeff, Maarten F Schim ^a,c   Unemo, Magnus ^d   Van Dam, Alje P ^a,e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; TARGETED DEFERRED CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84929330932     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00369-15     Document Type: Article

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