Publications

Syphilis seroprevalence among patients attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic in West Bengal, India.	Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and is a major public health concern in India. The trend of syphilis infection was studied in attendees aged 15-49 years in an STD clinic in West Bengal from 2004 to 2008. Blood samples were collected from 250 consecutive patients per year (a total of 1,250 samples over 5 years); the patients attended the STD clinic for 12 weeks (October-December) each year, and the serostatus of syphilis was determined qualitatively with the Venereal Disease ...	2011	22116330
nontobacco substance use, sexual abuse, hiv, and sexually transmitted infection among street children in kolkata, india.	a community-based cross-sectional study among 554 kolkata city street children assessed nontobacco substance use and sexual abuses along with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)/ sexually transmitted infections (stis) during 2007, using conventional cluster sampling technique for "hard-to-reach population" with a field-tested questionnaire and the collection of a blood sample for hiv and syphilis serology testing as a composite indicator of stis. the reported prevalence of nontobacco substance us ...	2010	20590379