Just one more day: The gap as population level determinant and risk factor for STI spread

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 445-446

  Aral, Sevgi O ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DEMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONOGAMY; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43449087021     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181753ce8     Document Type: Editorial

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