Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and associated risk factors among populations of drug abusers

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 920-926

  Hwang, Lu Yu ^a   Ross, Michael W ^a   Zack, Carolyn ^a   Bull, Lara ^a   Rickman, Kathie ^b   Holleman, Marsha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Door to Recovery   (United States)

^c Houston Recovery Campus ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYPHILIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CRACK COCAINE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HERPES GENITALIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HIV-2; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDLE SHARING; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEX FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TEXAS;

EID: 0034451670     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318131     Document Type: Article

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