Different demographic and sexual correlates for chlamydial infection and gonorrhoea in Rotterdam

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1373-1385

  Van Duynhoven, Y T H P ^a   Van De Laar, M J W ^a   Schop, W A ^a   Mouton, J W ^b   Van Der Meijden, W I ^b   Sprenger, M J W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NETHERLANDS; OROPHARYNX; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; URETHRA;

EID: 0031465340     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/26.6.1373     Document Type: Article

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