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Knowledge and Attitude of Nursing Students regarding Sexually Transmitted Infections [PDF]
Tanta Scientific Nursing JournalBackground: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are major health problems and mostly affect young people in developing and developed countries. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess knowledge and attitude of nursing students regarding sexually ...
Rasha Tag Elden Okba +3 more
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Season of Birth Impacts the Neonatal Nasopharyngeal Microbiota
Children, 2020 Objective: Pathogenic airway bacteria colonizing the neonatal airway increase the risk of childhood asthma, but little is known about the determinants of the establishment and dynamics of the airway microbiota in early life.
Ann-Marie Malby Schoos +9 more
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Sexual behaviour and HIV/sexually transmitted infection risk behaviours in the general population of Slovenia, a low HIV prevalence country in central Europe. [PDF]
, 2009 OBJECTIVES: To describe sexual and HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk behaviours in Slovenia. METHODS: A nationally representative cross-sectional survey of the general population aged 18-49 years in 1999-2001 was conducted.
Weiss, HA +4 more
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Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2022 Background: Sexually transmitted infections are one the most important public health problems in the developing countries that have been reported to have many adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Nuhamin Tesfa Tsega +8 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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SAGE Open Medicine, 2017 Objectives: HIV and other sexually transmitted infections remain a challenge globally and many key groups have yet to be studied. Evidence shows that truck drivers may have high-risk behaviors and higher sexually transmitted infection/HIV prevalence ...
Patricía J García +9 more
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Low uptake of sexually transmitted infection testing by sexually active young people is a worldwide public health problem. Screening in non-medical settings has been suggested as a method to improve uptake. The “Test n Treat” feasibility trial
Charlotte Fleming +11 more
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On the pathway to better birth outcomes? A systematic review of azithromycin and curable sexually transmitted infections. [PDF]
, 2013 The WHO recommends the administration of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) to all pregnant women living in areas of moderate (stable) to high malaria transmission during scheduled antenatal visits, beginning in the second trimester and continuing to ...
Chandramohan, Daniel +9 more
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DNA ligase LigE increases bacterial transformation with damaged extracellular DNA
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The DNA ligase LigE from the naturally competent Gram‐negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoaea increases transformation with cut extracellular DNA. This process is ATP‐dependent and relies on the catalytic activity of LigE; it also requires that LigE contains an intact periplasmic localisation sequence, indicating that ligE functions in the periplasm ...
Jolyn Pan +4 more
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History of the Diagnosis of a Sexually Transmitted Disease is Linked to Normal Variation in Personality Traits [PDF]
, 2012 Introduction. Stable individual differences in personality traits have well-documented associations with various aspects of health. One of the health outcomes that directly depends on people's behavioral choices, and may therefore be linked to ...
Allik, Jueri +4 more
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