Sexually transmitted infection in female sex workers: Reduced by condom use but not by a limited periodic examination program

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 82-89

  Sánchez, Jorge ^a   Gotuzzo, Eduardo ^a   Escamilla, Joel ^b   Carrillo, Carlos ^a   Moreyra, Luis ^d   Stamm, Walter ^c   Ashley, Rhoda ^c   Swenson, Paul ^c   Holmes, King K ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^b California   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONDOM; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PERU; PROSTITUTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; GOVERNMENT; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CONDOMS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERU; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; REGISTRIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 0031594746     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199802000-00005     Document Type: Article

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