Stay in school? Results of a sexually transmitted diseases screening program in San Francisco high schools-2007

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 550-552

  Barry, Pennan M ^a,b,e   Scott, Katherine C ^b   McCright, Jacqueline ^b   Snell, Ameera ^b   Lee, Monica ^b   Bascom, Trish ^c   Kent, Charlotte K ^b   Klausner, Jeffrey D ^d  

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

^b SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c San Francisco Unified School District   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; GROUPS BY AGE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIGH SCHOOL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEGRO; PACIFIC ISLANDER; SCREENING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; ABSENTEEISM; ADOLESCENT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SCHOOL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ABSENTEEISM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SAN FRANCISCO; SCHOOLS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STUDENTS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 48049118203     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31816a43d3     Document Type: Article

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