Continuing transmission of sexually transmitted diseases among patients infected with HIV-1 attending genitourinary medicine clinics in England and Wales

British Medical Journal

Volumn 312, Issue 7030, 1996, Pages 539-542

  Catchpole, M A ^a   Mercey, D E ^b   Nicoll, A ^a   Rogers, P A ^a   Simms, I ^a   Newham, J ^a   Mahoney, A ^a   Parry, J V ^a   Joyce, C ^a   Gill, O N ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; BLOOD SAMPLING; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030068067     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7030.539     Document Type: Article

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