title: Managing sexually transmitted diseases in the tropics: is a laboratory really needed?
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. philippe.mayaud@lshtm.ac.uk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mayaud
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Mabey
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D003663:Decision Trees; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology; D014330:Tropical Medicine / Q000379:methods*