Open AccessDiverging gonorrhea and syphilis trends in the 1980s: are they real?
Author(s) -
Kenneth Gershman,
Robert T. Rolfs
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.81.10.1263
Subject(s) - gonorrhea , syphilis , incidence (geometry) , medicine , demography , neisseria gonorrhoeae , metropolitan area , sexually transmitted disease , environmental health , immunology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , biology , pathology , physics , microbiology and biotechnology , sociology , optics
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the divergence in national trends of gonorrhea and syphilis from 1986 to 1989 in the United States was real and if overall trends masked a contemporaneous increase in both diseases in a core group.