Prevalence, incidence, and determinants of syphilis in female commercial sex workers in Mexico City

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 120-126

  Uribe Salas, Felipe ^b   Del Río Chiriboga, Carlos ^b   Conde Glez, Carlos J ^b   Juárez Figueroa, Luis ^b   Uribe Zúñaga, Patricia ^b   Calderón Jaimes, Ernesto ^b   Hernández Avila, Mauricio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYPHILIS;

EID: 0029876021     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199603000-00006     Document Type: Article

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