Sexual behaviours, knowledge and attitudes regarding safe sex, and prevalence of non-viral sexually transmitted infections among attendees of youth clinics in St. Petersburg, Russia

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Shipitsyna, E ^a   Krasnoselskikh, T ^b   Zolotoverkhaya, E ^a   Savicheva, A ^a   Krotin, P ^c   Domeika, M ^d   Unemo, M ^e  

^a D O OTT RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS   (Russian Federation)

^b PAVLOV FIRST SAINT PETERSBURG STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c City Youth Clinic Yuventa   (Russian Federation)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAFE SEX; SCREENING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS;

EID: 84872836943     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2012.04512.x     Document Type: Article

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