A Comparison of Prevalence Rates of Genital Ulcers among Persons Attending a Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic in Jamaica

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 67-71

  Brathwaite, A R ^a   Figueroa, J P ^a   Ward, E ^a  

^a Ministry of Health   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; CROSS SECTIONAL ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASES; FEMALE; GENITAL HERPES; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GRANULOMA INGUINALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HIV INFECTIONS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; HUMAN; INFECTIONS; JAMAICA; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PREVALENCE; PREVALENCE--CHANGES; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; RESEARCH REPORT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SYPHILIS; ULCUS MOLLE; VIRAL DISEASES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; AMERICAS; CARIBBEAN; CROSS SECTIONAL ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; HIV INFECTIONS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; INFECTIONS; JAMAICA; MEASUREMENT; NORTH AMERICA; PREVALENCE--CHANGES; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; VIRAL DISEASES;

CHANCROID; CONDYLOMATA ACUMINATA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GRANULOMA INGUINALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HUMANS; JAMAICA; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS;

EID: 0031216733     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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