High prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections among HIV-1 negative men who have sex with men in coastal Kenya

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 440-441

  Sanders, Eduard J ^a,b   Thiong'o, Alexander N ^a   Okuku, Haile Selassie ^a   Mwambi, John ^a   Priddy, Frances ^c   Shafi, Juma ^d   De Vries, Henry ^e,f   McClelland, R Scott ^d,g   Graham, Susan M ^a,g  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^e DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DYSURIA; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INFECTION RISK; KENYA; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM PAIN; SCREENING TEST; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GONORRHEA; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV-1; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; RECTAL DISEASES; URETHRAL DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78449238149     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2010.043224     Document Type: Article

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