Sexually transmitted infections and risk factors for gonorrhea and chlamydia in female sex workers in soc trang, vietnam

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 935-940

  Nguyen, Thuong Vu ^a,b   Van Khuu, Nghia ^a   Thi Le, Truc Thanh ^c   Nguyen, Anh Phuong ^d   Cao, Van ^a   Tham, Dung Chi ^e   Detels, Roger ^c  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Hospital for Dermato Venereology   (Viet Nam)

^d Center for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control   (Viet Nam)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDIASIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; REAGIN TEST; SALARY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINAL LAVAGE; VIET NAM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INTERVIEW; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RISK FACTOR; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CANDIDIASIS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149165225     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181812d03     Document Type: Article

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