Sexually transmitted infections: Prevention and management

Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 167-188

  Jackson, Denis ^a   Dallabetta, Gina ^a   Steen, Richard ^a  

^a FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOTRIMAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TINIDAZOLE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDIASIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENDER; GONORRHEA; GRANULOMA INGUINALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HERPES; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFECTION RISK; INFORMED CONSENT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREEMPLOYMENT MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; PUBLICATION; RISK REDUCTION; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TANZANIA; TRICHOMONIASIS; ULCUS MOLLE; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINITIS; WORKPLACE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 1242272881     PISSN: 15260046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coem.2003.09.005     Document Type: Review

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