HSV type specific antibody tests: Patients are ready, are clinicians?

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 235-236

  Ashley, Rhoda L ^a   Corey, Lawrence ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; GENITAL HERPES; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEROLOGY;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HERPES GENITALIS; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HUMANS; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 79959970990     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.73.4.235     Document Type: Editorial

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