Male circumcision and STI acquisition in Britain: Evidence from a national probability sample survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Homfray, Virginia ^a   Tanton, Clare ^a   Miller, Robert F ^a   Beddows, Simon ^b   Field, Nigel ^a   Sonnenberg, Pam ^a   Wellings, Kaye ^c   Panwar, Kavita ^b   Johnson, Anne M ^a   Mercer, Catherine H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHLAMYDIASIS; CIRCUMCISION; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 18; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 31; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 33; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 35; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 39; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 45; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 51; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 52; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 56; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 58; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 59; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 68; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; URINALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; WART VIRUS; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 2; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939155223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130396     Document Type: Review

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