Epidemiologic aspects of male gonococcal infection in greece

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-48

  Kyriakis, Kyriakos P ^a   Tzelepi, Eva ^a   Flemetakls, Alexandros ^b   Avgerinou, Helen ^b   Tzouvelekis, Leonidas S ^a   Frangouli, Efi ^b  

^a HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b Hospital for Venereal and Skin Diseases 'A Syngros'   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLINASE;

ARTICLE; GONORRHEA; GREECE; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BIOLOGY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; GONORRHEA--MEN; GREECE; HEALTH; INCIDENCE--CHANGES; INFECTIONS; MEASUREMENT; MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STUDIES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GONORRHEA; GREECE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PENICILLINASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 0032926692     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199901000-00007     Document Type: Article

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