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The Prevalence of Syphilis Infection and Its Associated Factors in the General Population of Rwanda: A National Household-Based Survey.

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Published in J Sex Transm Dis on March 30, 2016

Authors

Mwumvaneza Mutagoma1, Eric Remera1, Dieudonné Sebuhoro1, Steve Kanters2, David J Riedel3, Sabin Nsanzimana4

Author Affiliations

1: Rwanda Biomedical Center, Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda.
2: Global Evaluative Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada; School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
3: Institute of Human Virology and Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
4: Rwanda Biomedical Center, Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda; Basel Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Institute & Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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