Combating the silent chlamydia epidemic

Contemporary Ob/Gyn

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 90-98

  Walsh, Cathleen M ^a   Irwin, Kathleen L ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

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