Diagnosis Of Chlamydia Trachomatis Urethral Infection In Symptomatic And Asymptomatic Men By Testing First-Void Urine In A Ligase Chain Reaction Assay

Max A. Chernesky, Helen Lee, Julius Schachter, John D. Burczak, Walter E. Stamm, William M. McCormack, and Thomas C. Quinn McMaster University Regional Virology and Chlamydiology Laboratory, St. Joseph 5 Hospital, Hamilton, Canada; Probe Diagnostic Business Unit, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois; University of California Medical School, San Francisco; Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland