644Rising Incidence of Syphilis Among Rural HIV+ Men Despite Systematic, Point of Care Prevention Counseling
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644. Rising Incidence of Syphilis Among Rural HIV+ Men Despite Systematic, Point of Care Prevention Counseling Poonam Mathur, MD; John Zurlo, MD; Patsi Albright, CRNP, PhD; Tonya Crook, MD; Cynthia Whitener, MD; Ping Du, MD, PhD; Medicine, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Pennsylvania State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; Medicine/Public Health Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
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تاریخ انتشار 2014