International travel and sexually transmitted diseases

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 86-93

  Memish, Ziad A ^a   Osoba, Abimbola O ^b  

^a KING FAHAD NATIONAL GUARD HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

HIV; International travel; Management; Prevention; STDs

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LEVOFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BARRIER CONTRACEPTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONDOM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GONORRHEA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MIGRATION; MONOGAMY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TRAVEL; ULCUS MOLLE; URETHRITIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CONDOMS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRAVEL; UNSAFE SEX; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 32544445017     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2005.01.003     Document Type: Article

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