Contact-tracing outcomes among male syphilis patients in Fulton County, Georgia, 2003

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 456-460

  Samoff, Erika ^a,d   Koumans, Emilia H ^a   Katkowsky, Steven ^b   Shouse, R Luke ^c   Markowitz, Lauri E ^a   Allen, Michelle L ^e   Brown, Reginald ^e   Cameron, Elijah ^e   Chastang, Donald ^e   Lewis Hardy, Ruby ^e   Tambe, Pradnya ^e  

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

^b Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office   (United States)

^c GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYPHILIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTACT TRACING; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SYPHILIS;

EID: 34250805922     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000251203.34805.28     Document Type: Review

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