The relationship between the symptoms of female gonococcal infections and serum progesterone level and the genotypes of Neisseria gonorrhoeae multi-antigen sequence type (NG-MAST) in Wuhan, China.

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Published in Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis on September 04, 2010

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Z Wu1, L Xu, Y Tu, R Chen, Y Yu, J Li, M Tan, H Chen

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1: Department of Dermatology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

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