Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis among young German adolescents, 200506

Sexual Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 120-122

  Desai, Sarika ^a,b   Meyer, Thomas ^c   Thamm, Michael ^a   Hamouda, Osamah ^a   Bremer, Viviane ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

screening

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHLAMYDIASIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; GERMANY; GROUPS BY AGE; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PREVALENCE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79251639873     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH10036     Document Type: Article

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