Increasing detection of asymptomatic syphilis in HIV patients

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 217-219

  Cohen, Charlotte E ^a   Winston, A ^a   Asboe, D ^a   Boag, F ^a   Mandalia, S ^a   Azadian, B ^a   Hawkins, D A ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOLOGY; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; FOLLOW UP; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REINFECTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; UNITED KINGDOM; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 20644469460     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2004.012187     Document Type: Article

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