Sexual network structure among a household sample of urban african american adolescents in an endemic sexually transmitted infection setting

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-48

  Fichtenberg, Caroline M ^a   Muth, Stephen Q ^b   Brown, Beth ^c   Padian, Nancy S ^d   Glass, Thomas A ^a   Ellen, Jonathan M ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Quintus ential Solutions   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIASIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL NETWORK; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTACT EXAMINATION; FAMILY SIZE; INTERVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONTACT TRACING; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; SAN FRANCISCO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59049107284     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181860711     Document Type: Article

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