The transmission dynamics of gonorrhoea: Modelling the reported behaviour of infected patients from Newark, New Jersey

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1384, 1999, Pages 787-797

  Garnett, Geoff P ^a   Mertz, Kristen J ^b   Finelli, Lyn ^b   Levine, William C ^b   St Louis, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Gonorrhoea; Mathematical model; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Sexual behaviour; Sexually transmitted infection

Indexed keywords

NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 0033614338     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0431     Document Type: Article

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