Dangerous assumptions: Lesbians and sexual death

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 570-571

  Marrazzo, Jeanne M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LESBIAN; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 24944435471     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000175368.82940.61     Document Type: Editorial

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