Sexual Mixing Patterns of Patients Attending Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinics

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Summary

Assortatively mixing persons of high sexual activity makes the persistence of STDs within a population likely (i.e., they act as a “core group”), and because mixing is not highly assortative, a steady trickle of infection from members of the core group will pass to other segments of the population.

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article
Published
1996-05-01
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Medicine, Population, Demography, Public health, Sexually transmitted disease

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