Oral and anal sex are key to sustaining gonorrhoea at endemic levels in MSM populations: A mathematical model

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 365-369

  Hui, B ^a   Fairley, C K ^b,c,d   Chen, M ^b,c,d   Grulich, A ^a   Hocking, J ^e   Prestage, G ^a,d   Walker, S ^c   Law, M ^a   Regan, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MELBOURNE SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Australia)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; CONDOM USE; CUNNILINGUS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FELLATIO; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; ORAL SEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; URETHRITIS; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CONDOM; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHARYNX; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CONDOMS; GONORRHEA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHARYNX; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84938414894     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2014-051760     Document Type: Article

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