Comparison of STD prevalences in the Mwanza, Rakai, and Masaka trial populations: The role of selection bias and diagnostic errors

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 98-105

  Orroth, Kate K ^a   Korenromp, E L ^b   White, R G ^a   Changalucha, J ^c   De Vlas, S J ^b   Gray, R H ^d   Hughes, P ^e   Kamali, A ^e   Ojwiya, A ^e   Serwadda, D ^f   Wawer, M J ^g   Hayes, R J ^a   Grosskurth, H ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e MRC Programme on AIDS in Uganda   (Uganda)

^f MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^g Columbia University School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GENDER; GONORRHEA; HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TANZANIA; TRICHOMONIASIS;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SELECTION BIAS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TANZANIA;

EID: 0037395506     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.79.2.98     Document Type: Article

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