Improving second-generation surveillance: The biological measure of unprotected intercourse using prostate-specific antigen in vaginal secretions of west African women

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 490-493

  Pépin, Jacques ^a,b   Fink, Guy D ^b   Khonde, Nzambi ^c,d   Sobela, Francois ^c,d   Deslandes, Sylvie ^a   Diakité, Soumaila ^c,d   Labbé, Annie Claude ^e   Sylla, Mohamed ^c,d   Frost, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c West Africa Project to Combat AIDS   (Ghana)

^d Hôpital Maisonneuve Rosemont ^*

^e MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

HIV; Prostate specific antigen; Sexual behavior; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNSAFE SEX; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA SECRETION;

EID: 33745931675     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.qai.0000222286.52084.9c     Document Type: Article

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