Indirect methods for estimating prevalent HIV infections: Adults in England and Wales at the end of 1993

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 165-172

  Hughes, G ^a   Porter, K ^a   Gill, O N ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; WALES;

EID: 0031690270     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268898008760     Document Type: Article

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