Seroadaptive Practices: Association with HIV Acquisition among HIV-Negative Men Who Have Sex with Men

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Vallabhaneni, Snigdha ^a   Li, Xin ^b   Vittinghoff, Eric ^a   Donnell, Deborah ^b   Pilcher, Christopher D ^a   Buchbinder, Susan P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANILINGUS; ARTICLE; CONDOM; HIV SEROSORTING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; RISK FACTOR; SEROCONVERSION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE;

ADULT; HIV ANTIBODIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROSORTING; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; RISK-TAKING; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 84867041444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045718     Document Type: Article

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