Travel-associated sexually transmitted infections: An observational cross-sectional study of the GeoSentinel surveillance database

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 205-213

  Matteelli, Alberto ^a   Schlagenhauf, Patricia ^b   Carvalho, Anna CC ^a   Weld, Leisa ^c   Davis, Xiaohong M ^d   Wilder Smith, Annelies ^e,f   Barnett, Elizabeth D ^g   Parola, Philippe ^h   Pandey, Prativa ⁱ   Han, Pauline ^d   Castelli, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ^*

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^g BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

ⁱ CIWEC Travel Medicine Centre Nepal   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EASTERN EUROPE; EPIDIDYMITIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AFRICA; NORTH AMERICA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SYPHILIS; TRAVEL; TRICHOMONIASIS; ULCUS MOLLE; URETHRITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; WESTERN EUROPE;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EPIDIDYMITIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEX FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; URETHRITIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874236035     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(12)70291-8     Document Type: Article

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