Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in registered female sex workers in northern Mexico

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 195-198

  Alvarado Esquivel, Cosme ^a   Briones Ezcarzaga, Miguel Laureano ^a   Castruita Limones, Dora Elia ^a   Lazalde Ramos, Blanca Patricia ^a   Villegas Salas, Elsa ^b   Arizpe Gutierrez, Alfonso ^c   Medrano, Juan Carlos ^b   Castellanos, Sergio ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD JUÁREZ DEL ESTADO DE DURANGO   (Mexico)

^b Servicios de Salud de Zacatecas   (Mexico)

^c Dir Salud/Asistencia Social Munic   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; DEMOGRAPHY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UTERINE CERVICITIS; AGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEXICO; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0037337081     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-200303000-00003     Document Type: Article

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