Syphilis: Back on the rise, but not unstoppable

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 172-173

  Fairley, Christopher K ^a,b   Hocking, Jane S ^a,c   Medland, Nicholas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

^d Victorian AIDS Council   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

CONDOM; CONTACT EXAMINATION; COOPERATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RASH; SCREENING TEST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYMPTOM; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ULCER;

EID: 23844534879     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06985.x     Document Type: Editorial

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