Five-day azithromycin treatment regimen for mycoplasma genitalium infection also effectively eradicates chlamydia trachomatis

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 730-732

  Unemo, Magnus ^a   Endre, Kim M A ^b   Moi, Harald ^b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COINFECTION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COINFECTION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84932162013     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-2108     Document Type: Article

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