Natural history of Mycoplasma genitalium infection in a cohort of female sex workers in Kampala, Uganda.

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Published in Sex Transm Dis on May 01, 2013

Authors

Judith Vandepitte1, Helen A Weiss, Nassim Kyakuwa, Susan Nakubulwa, Etienne Muller, Anne Buvé, Patrick Van der Stuyft, Richard Hayes, Heiner Grosskurth

Author Affiliations

1: MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda. Judith.vandepitte@mrcuganda.org

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