Higher prevalence of human papillomavirus infection in migrant women from Latin America in Spain

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 260-262

  Gonzalez C ^a   Ortiz, M ^b   Canals, J ^c   Munoz L ^b   Jarrin I ^a   De La Hera, M G ^a   Garcia Saiz A ^b   Del Amo, Julia ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c Family Planning Centre No II   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 18; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 33; INFECTION RISK; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALITY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPAIN; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SPAIN; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 33745119463     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2005.016774     Document Type: Article

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