Prevalence and predictors of sexually transmitted infection among newly incarcerated females

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 68-72

  Willers, Denise M ^a   Peipert, Jeffrey F ^a   Allsworth, Jenifer E ^a   Stein, Michael D ^b   Rose, Jennifer S ^b   Clarke, Jennifer G ^b  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRISON; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SCREENING; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UNITED STATES; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; VAGINA SMEAR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PRISONER; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PRISONERS; RHODE ISLAND; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 39649088283     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318154bdb2     Document Type: Article

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