What's driving an epidemic? The spread of syphilis along an Interstate Highway in rural North Carolina

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 369-373

  Cook, Robert L ^a,c   Royce, Rachel A ^b   Thomas, James C ^b   Hanusa, Barbara H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG UTILIZATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HIGHWAY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033054264     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.89.3.369     Document Type: Article

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