Prevalence and factors associated with asymptomatic gonococcal and chlamydial infection among US Navy and Marine Corps men infected with the HIV: A cohort study

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Carpenter, Robert J ^a   Refugio, Oliver N ^b   Adams, Nehkonti ^a   O'Brien, Kevin P ^a   Johnson, Mark D ^a   Groff, Harold L ^a   Maves, Ryan C ^a   Bavaro, Mary F ^a   Crum Cianflone, Nancy F ^a,b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARMY; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNICITY; GONORRHEA; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIED MAN; MARRIED PERSON; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MIXED INFECTION; NAVY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; RECTUM SWAB; SCREENING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; THROAT CULTURE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84878456224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002775     Document Type: Article

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