Prevalence of and factors associated with rectal-only chlamydia and gonorrhoea in women and in men who have sex with men

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Van Liere, Geneviève A F S ^a,b   Van Rooijen, Martijn S ^c   Hoebe, Christian J P A ^a,b   Heijman, Titia ^c   De Vries, Henry J C ^c,d,e   Dukers Muijrers, Nicole H T M ^a,b  

^a South Limburg Public Health Service   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUTCHMAN; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NETHERLANDS; ORAL SEX; OROPHARYNGEAL GONORRHOEA; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; RECTUM; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COINFECTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949963196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140297     Document Type: Article

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