Syphilis: A forgotten priority [2]

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 559-560

  Walker, Damian ^a,b   Walker, Godfrey ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; PENICILLIN G;

ABORTION; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; GENITAL ULCER; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALARIA; PRENATAL CARE; STILLBIRTH; SYPHILIS; TRACHOMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TROPICAL DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MOTIVATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

GOALS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SYPHILIS; TROPICAL MEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33646254374     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030204     Document Type: Letter

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