Using sexual affiliation networks to describe the sexual structure of a population

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 83, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Frost, Simon D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDOM; EPIDEMIC; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS;

CONTACT TRACING; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 34547803758     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2006.023580     Document Type: Review

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