Gender Differences in Bacterial STIs in Canada

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 4, Issue Suppl 1, 2004, Pages

  Wong, Thomas ^a   Singh, Ameeta ^b   Mann, Janice ^a   Hansen, Lisa ^a   McMahon, Sharon ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b Alberta Health and Wellness   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic Pelvic Pain; Genital Herpes; Gonorrhea; Pelvic Inflammatory Disease; Syphilis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645105983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-4-S1-S26     Document Type: Article

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