Sexual contacts and epidemic thresholds

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6940, 2003, Pages 605-606

  Jones, James Holland ^a   Handcock, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NOTE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

CONTACT TRACING; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SWEDEN;

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0037834802     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/423605a     Document Type: Article

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