Man-to-Woman Sexual Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Risk Factors Related to Sexual Behavior, Man’s Infectiousness, and Woman’s Susceptibility

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 151, Issue 12, 1991, Pages 2411-2416

  Lazzarin, Adriano ^a   Saracco, Alberto ^a,d   Musicco, Massimo ^b   Nicolosi, Alfredo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons   (United States)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES, MALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX BEHAVIOR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0026346960     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1991.00400120055009     Document Type: Article

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