High prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in HIV-infected men during routine outpatient visits in the Netherlands

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-15

  Heiligenberg, Marlies ^a,b   Rijnders, Bart ^c   Van Der Loeff, Maarten F Schim ^a,b   De Vries, Henry J C ^a,b,d   Van Der Meijden, Willem I ^c   Geerlings, Suzanne E ^b   Fennema, Han S A ^a   Prins, Maria ^a,b   Prins, Jan M ^b  

^a Health Service Amsterdam ^*  (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA;

ADULT; AGED; ANUS DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; GONORRHEA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MASS SCREENING; MOUTH INFECTION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NETHERLANDS; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; URETHRITIS;

ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OUTPATIENTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 83555162558     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3182354e81     Document Type: Article

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