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15627229

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-12-31
pubmed:abstractText
Sex workers (SWs) and their clients are often identified as being central in transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Little is known about how patterns of contact between SWs and their clients influence the persistence of STIs. We developed an individual-based simulation model to explore how variation in number of client contacts per SW, whether clients repeatedly visited the same SW, and the relative sizes of the SW and client populations influence the endemic prevalence of gonorrhea and herpes simplex virus type 2 infection. Persistence of either infection was more likely if clients visited many different SWs, regardless of variation in the SW-client contact rate, and also resulted in a higher endemic prevalence in both populations and a greater likelihood of persistence of infection at lower levels in the general population. The size of the SW population (relative to the total population) was found to be most important in determining the overall prevalence of infection.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0022-1899
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
191 Suppl 1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S34-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Patterns of sex worker-client contacts and their implications for the persistence of sexually transmitted infections.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. a.ghani@imperial.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Evaluation Studies