The slippery slope: Lubricant use and rectal sexually transmitted infections: A newly identified risk

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-64

  Gorbach, Pamina M ^a,b   Weiss, Robert E ^a   Fuchs, Edward ^c   Jeffries, Robin A ^a   Hezerah, Marjan ^d   Brown, Stephen ^d   Voskanian, Alen ^b   Robbie, Edward ^a   Anton, Peter ^b   Cranston, Ross D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d AIDS Research Alliance   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONDOM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RECEPTIVE ANAL INTERCOURSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; URETHRITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BALTIMORE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; LUBRICANTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83555165274     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318235502b     Document Type: Article

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