Risk pathways for gonorrhea acquisition in sex workers: Can we distinguish confounding from an exposure effect using a priori hypotheses?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 210, Issue , 2014, Pages S579-S585

  Gomez, Gabriela B ^a   Ward, Helen ^b   Garnett, Geoffrey P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Framework; Gonorrhea; Risk of acquisition; Sex workers

Indexed keywords

GONORRHEA; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84964315847     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiu484     Document Type: Article

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