An epidemiological survey of chlamydial and gonococcal infections in a canadian arctic community

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 79-83

  Steenbeek, Audrey ^a   Tyndall, Mark ^b   Sheps, Samuel ^d   Rothenberg, Richard ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d School of Nursing ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFIXIME;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHLAMYDIASIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESKIMO; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; MEDICAL LITERATURE; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCREENING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; THERAPY EFFECT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ETHNOLOGY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

ADULT; CANADA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTACT TRACING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; INUITS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60749108632     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181898e4d     Document Type: Article

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