Sexual networks, HIV, race and bacterial vaginosis

AIDS

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 641-642

  Kenyon, Chris ^a,b   Osbak, Kara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT SEXUAL PARTNERSHIP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MICROBIOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VAGINITIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; TRANSMISSION; VAGINA;

DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIOTA; VAGINA;

EID: 84926504796     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000566     Document Type: Letter

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