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EDITORIAL

Do Australian female commercial sex workers still harbour sexually transmissible infections?

Darren Russell
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Cairns Sexual Health Service, Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia. Email: darren_russell@health.qld.gov.au

Sexual Health 7(1) 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH09143
Submitted: 10 December 2009  Accepted: 15 December 2009   Published: 15 February 2010


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