Changes in the patterns of sexually transmitted infection among South African mineworkers, associated with the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 11 III, 2007, Pages 1155-1160

  Htun, Ye ^a   Radebe, F ^a   Fehler, H G ^a   Ballard, R C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CONDYLOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDIDYMITIS; GENITAL HERPES; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIGRANT WORKER; MINER; ORCHITIS; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AFRICA; ULCUS MOLLE; URETHRITIS;

EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MINING; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 37349051355     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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