Overview of incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in Kuwait

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 509-512

  Al Fouzan, Abdulwahab ^a,c   Al Mutairi, Nawaf ^b  

^a AL SABAH HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^b FARWANIYA HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^c Kuwait ^*  (Tanzania)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONDYLOMA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENITAL HERPES; GONORRHEA; HERPES VIRUS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; KUWAIT; NONHUMAN; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; ULCUS MOLLE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WART VIRUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 10944223561     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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