Lymphogranuloma venereum diagnoses among men who have sex with men in the UK: Interpreting a cross-sectional study using an epidemic phase-specific framework

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 542-547

  Hughes, Gwenda ^a   Alexander, Sarah ^a   Simms, Ian ^a   Conti, Stefano ^a   Ward, Helen ^b   Powers, Cassandra ^a   Ison, Catherine ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; CASUAL SEX; CLINICAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; GENITAL HERPES; GONORRHEA; GROWTH CURVE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INSERTIVE INTERCOURSE; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; ORAL SEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RECEPTIVE INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SYPHILIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNPROTECTED SEX; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY (GENERAL); HOMOSEXUAL MALE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GREAT BRITAIN; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EPIDEMIOLOGY (GENERAL); GAY MEN; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR;

EID: 84891503480     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051051     Document Type: Article

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