Measuring sex partner concurrency: it's what's missing that counts.

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Published in Sex Transm Dis on October 01, 2007

Authors

Sara J Nelson1, Lisa E Manhart, Pamina M Gorbach, David H Martin, Bradley P Stoner, Sevgi O Aral, King K Holmes

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

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