Using surveillance data to monitor trends in the AIDS epidemic

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 143-154

  Green, Timothy A ^a,b  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INCIDENCE; MONITORING; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032579592     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980130)17:2<143::AID-SIM757>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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