Difficulties in estimating the male-to-female sexual transmissibility of human papillomavirus infection

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 262-263

  Rowhani Rahbar, Ali ^a,b   Hughes, James P ^a   Koutsky, Laura A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; SELF REPORT; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; COITUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COITUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549118845     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181901906     Document Type: Article

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