Cofactors in male-female sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 233-239

  Plummer, Francis A ^a,b   Simonsen, J Neil ^a,b   Cameron, D William ^a,b   Ndinya Achola, Jackoniah O ^a,b   Kreiss, Joan K ^a,b   Gakinya, Michael N ^a,b   Waiyaki, Peter ^a,b   Cheang, Mary ^a,b   Piot, Peter ^a,b   Ronald, Allan R ^a,b   Ngugi, Elizabeth N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONDOM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; SEROCONVERSION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES, MALE; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KENYA; MALE; PROSTITUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ULCER;

EID: 0026099461     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/163.2.233     Document Type: Article

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