Prevention of viral sexually transmitted infections - foreskin at the forefront

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 360, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1349-1351

  Golden, Matthew R ^a,b   Wasserheit, Judith N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Public Health Seattle and King County STD Control Program   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMCISION; EDITORIAL; GENITAL HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION PREVENTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VERRUCA VULGARIS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NOTE; VIRUS INFECTION;

CIRCUMCISION, MALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; SYPHILIS;

EID: 63249122357     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0900762     Document Type: Editorial

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