How Many Patients Who Present to North Central Bronx Hospital with a Sexually Transmitted Disease (Chlamydia, Gonorrhea) Are Tested for HIV?
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243. Watch Out! Syphilis Is Back – Case Series of Four Cases of Ocular syphilis Hesham Awadh, MD; Haresh Visweshwar, MD; Jacob Kilgore, MD and Kara Willenburg, MD; Internal Medicine, Marshall University – Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia, Internal Medicine, Marshall University – Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia, Medicine-Pediatrics, Marshall University – Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia, Infectious Diseases, Marshall University – Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia
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