Syphilis on the Rise: What Went Wrong?

Overview

Journal JAMA

Publisher American Medical Association

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2016 Jun 9

PMID 27272579

Citations 13

Authors

Meredith E Clement

Charles B Hicks

Affiliations

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