Circumcision and risk of sexually transmissible infections in a community-based cohort of HIV negative homosexual men in Sydney, Australia

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 200, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1813-1819

  Templeton, David J ^a,c   Jin, Fengyi ^a   Prestage, Garrett P ^a   Donovan, Basil ^a,d   Imrie, John C ^b   Kippax, Susan C ^b   Cunningham, Phillip H ^e   Kaldor, John M ^a   Mindel, Adrian ^f   Cunningham, Anthony L ^g   Grulich, Andrew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d SYDNEY EYE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHLAMYDIAL URETHRITIS; CIRCUMCISION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; GONORRHEA; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71949110565     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648376     Document Type: Article

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