Characteristics of Patients With Syphilis Attending Baltimore STD Clinics: Multiple High-Risk Subgroups and Interactions With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 511-516

  Hutchinson, Catherine M ^a   Rompalo, Anne M ^a,b   Reichart, Cindy A ^a   Hook, Edward W ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BALTIMORE CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; BALTIMORE; BLACKS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0026020382     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1991.00400030071013     Document Type: Article

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