Sociodemographic markers and behavioral correlates of sexually transmitted infections in a nonclinical sample of adolescent and young adult women

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-315

  Boyer, Cherrie B ^a   Shafer, Mary Ann B ^a   Pollack, Lance M ^b   Canchola, Jesse ^b   Moncada, Jeanne ^a   Schachter, Julius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ILLICIT DRUG;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONDOM; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HISPANIC; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUTRITION; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; RISK FACTOR; SAILOR; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COGNITION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS SCREENING; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS;

EID: 33746358872     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/506328     Document Type: Article

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