Prevention strategies for sexually transmitted infections: importance of sexual network structure and epidemic phase
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Prevention strategies for sexually transmitted infections: importance of sexual network structure and epidemic phase.
This article explores the relationship between sexual network structure and epidemic phase in sexually transmitted disease epidemiology, and discusses how this may be used to inform prevention strategies at the population level. There are relatively few empirical studies of sexual networks, and even fewer that track the evolution of networks over time. Most studies focus on networks in the cont...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2006.023598