Epidemiological correlates of asymptomatic gonorrhea

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 289-295

  Bozicevic, Ivana ^a   Fenton, Kevin A ^b,c   Martin, Iona M C ^b   Rudd, Elizabeth A ^b   Ison, Catharine A ^b   Nanchahal, Kiran ^a   Wellings, Kaye ^a  

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

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMORBIDITY; CONDYLOMA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENITAL HERPES; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WALES;

EID: 33646830657     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000194582.44222.c9     Document Type: Article

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