Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections in suspected child victims of sexual assault

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-86

  Girardet, Rebecca G ^a   Lahoti, Sheela ^b   Howard, Laurie A ^c   Fajman, Nancy N ^c   Sawyer, Mary K ^c   Driebe, Elizabeth M ^b   Lee, Francis ^c   Sautter, Robert L ^d   Greenwald, Earl ^d   Beck Sagué, Consuelo M ^b   Hammerschlag, Margaret R ^e   Black, Carolyn M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Pinnacle Health System   (United States)

^e SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Epidemiology; Sexual abuse; Sexually transmitted infection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; GROUPS BY AGE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEWBORN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL CRIME; SYPHILIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMATOSIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNITED STATES; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VICTIM; VIRUS CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; VAGINAL DISCHARGE;

EID: 67649605099     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-2947     Document Type: Article

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