How to do it: Lessons identified from investigating and trying to control an outbreak of gonorrhoea in young heterosexual adults

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 396-401

  Foster, K ^a   Cole, M ^a   Hotonu, O ^b   Stonebridge, J ^a   Hughes, G ^a   Simms, I ^a   Ison, C ^a   Waldram, A ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONDOM USE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; GONORRHEA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MOLECULAR TYPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNPROTECTED SEX; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960862971     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2015-052303     Document Type: Article

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