To notify or not to notify: STD patients' perspectives of partner notification in Seattle

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 193-200

  Gorbach, Pamina M ^a,e   Aral, Sevgi O ^c   Celum, Connie ^a   Stoner, Bradley P ^d   Whittington, William L H ^b   Galea, Jerome ^a   Coronado, Nora ^a   Connor, Simon ^a   Holmes, King K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY   (United States)

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

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHLAMYDIASIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

EID: 0034119165     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-200004000-00003     Document Type: Article

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