Populations and partnerships: Insights from metapopulation and pair models into the epidemiology of gonorrhoea and other sexually transmitted infections

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 433-439

  Chen, Mark I ^a,b,c   Ghani, Azra C ^d  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNICITY; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; METAPOPULATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 78449237167     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2009.040238     Document Type: Review

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