Chlamydia trachomatis, using the MicroTrak
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young women attending a family planning clinic and claimed that the brush was responsible for increasing the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis, using the MicroTrak technique, from 12% (9/73) to 27% (24/88). There is no way of knowing whether the specimens collected by the brush that were considered adequate for analysis contained more epithelial cells than specimens collected by the swab because the authors did not record the numbers ofcells. Such an increase
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تاریخ انتشار 2005