Clients of indoor commercial sex workers: heterogeneity in patronage patterns and implications for HIV and STI propagation through sexual networks.

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Published in Sex Transm Dis on October 01, 2007

Authors

Valencia P Remple1, David M Patrick, Caitlin Johnston, Mark W Tyndall, Ann M Jolly

Author Affiliations

1: University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. valencia.remple@bccdc.ca

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