Sexually transmitted diseases in a population of intravenous drug users: Association with seropositivity to the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 457-463

  Vlahov, David ^a   Cohn, Sylvia ^a   Mercy Odunmbaku, M O ^a   Lindsay, Arlette ^a   Anthony, James C ^a   Hook Iii, Edward W ^a  

^a BALTIMORE CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDYLOMA; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES;

BALTIMORE; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SYPHILIS;

EID: 0026091852     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/164.3.457     Document Type: Article

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