Bacterial vaginosis, race, and sexually transmitted infections: Does race modify the association?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 363-367

  Peipert, Jeffrey F ^a   Lapane, Kate L ^b   Allsworth, Jenifer E ^a   Redding, Colleen A ^c   Blume, Jeffrey D ^b   Stein, Michael D ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAM STAINING; HAZARD RATIO; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; VAGINITIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 41149159255     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31815e4179     Document Type: Article

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