Gonorrhea surveillance: The missing links

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 806-810

  Rothenberg, Richard ^a   Potterat, John J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EPIDEMIC; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; NOTE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCREENING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 0036897236     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-200212000-00012     Document Type: Note

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