Prevalences of and risk factors for sexually transmitted diseases among Japanese female commercial sex workers in middle- and high-class soaplands in Japan

International Journal of STD and AIDS

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 833-838

  Miyazaki, Motonobu ^a   Takagi, Shigeru ^b   Kato, Masumi ^a   Une, Hiroshi ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japanese female commercial sex workers; Risk factor; Sexually transmitted disease

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASSAGE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL CLASS; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONIASIS;

ADULT; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0036895743     PISSN: 09564624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/095646202321020116     Document Type: Article

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