Network-Centric Interventions to Contain the Syphilis Epidemic in San Francisco

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Juher, David ^a   Saldaña, Joan ^a   Kohn, Robert ^b   Bernstein, Kyle ^c   Scoglio, Caterina ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b San Francisco Department of Health   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SYPHILIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

CONTACT TRACING; EPIDEMICS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SAN FRANCISCO; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SYPHILIS;

EID: 85025833128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06619-9     Document Type: Article

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