Sexually transmitted infections and risk factors among truck stand workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 99-103

  Alam, Nazmul ^a,c   Rahman, Motiur ^a   Gausia, Kaniz ^a   Yunus, M D ^a   Islam, Nazrul ^a   Chaudhury, Parwez ^b   Monira, Shirajum ^a   Funkhouser, Ellen ^c   Vermund, Sten H ^d   Killewo, Japhet ^a,e  

^a ICDDRB Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIV EDUCATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RANDOM SAMPLE; REAGIN TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 33846426435     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000225325.23340.a3     Document Type: Article

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