Commercial logging and HIV epidemic, rural equatorial Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1953-1956

  Laurent, Christian ^a   Bourgeois, Anke ^a,b   Mpoudi, Mireille ^b   Butel, Christelle ^a   Peeters, Martine ^a   Mpoudi Ngolé, Eitel ^b   Delaporte, Eric ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Military Hospital   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMEROON; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LOGGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCREENING; SEROPREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 7644230931     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1011.040180     Document Type: Article

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