A spatial analysis of county-level variation in syphilis and gonorrhea in Guangdong Province, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Tan, Nicholas X ^a   Messina, Jane P ^b   Yang, Li Gang ^c   Yang, Bin ^c   Emch, Michael ^b   Chen, Xiang Sheng ^d   Cohen, Myron S ^e   Tucker, Joseph D ^a,c,e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and STD Control   (China)

^d National Center for STD Control   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHINA; DIVORCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GONORRHEA; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD OF LIVING; SYPHILIS; GEOGRAPHY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHINA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYPHILIS;

EID: 79955822613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019648     Document Type: Article

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