How well do trends in HIV prevalence in young people reflect HIV incidence? Results from 10 years of HIV serosurveillance in San Francisco

AIDS

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1332-1333

  Razani, Nooshin ^a   Schwarcz, Sandra ^b   Klausner, Jeffrey D ^b   Kohn, Robert P ^b   McFarland, Willi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PREVALENCE; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 33745869803     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000232244.58909.5a     Document Type: Article

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