Baseline infection with a sexually transmitted disease is highly predictive of reinfection during follow-up in malagasy sex workers

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 559-562

  Turner, Abigail Norris ^a   Feldblum, Paul J ^b   Hoke, Theresa Hatzell ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDOM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; MADAGASCAR; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROSTITUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REINFECTION; SEXUAL COUNSELING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONIASIS;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CONDOMS; CONDOMS, FEMALE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MADAGASCAR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RECURRENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955864413     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181d70a03     Document Type: Article

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