Outbreak of syphilis among HIV-infected patients: Descriptive data from a parisian hospital

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 718-719

  Abraham, Bruno ^a,b   Marih, Latifah ^a   Thevenet, Sandrine ^a   Da Silva Marechal, Elisete ^a   Verdet, Charlotte ^a   Rozenbaum, Willy ^a   Pialoux, Gilles ^a  

^a HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; LETTER; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPTOM; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIS; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 27944494328     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000186811.93837.90     Document Type: Letter

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