Effect of multiple freeze and thaw cycles on the sensitivity of IgG and IgM immunoglobulins in the sera of patients with syphilis.

abstract：:Heretofore most people affected by warts of the oral cavity were children, but during the past decade adults have become the most frequently seen patients with warts in the mouth. The popularity of fellatio among heterosexuals, teenagers, and adults has contributed to the spread of oral warts. Of epidemiologic interes...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Fiumara NJ

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to determine the rate of new infections and reinfections or persistent infections with Chlamydia trachomatis to define appropriate screening intervals and to identify risk factors for reinfection. DESIGN:This was a cross-sectional study among a subsample of participants in ...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Veldhuijzen IK,Van Bergen JE,Götz HM,Hoebe CJ,Morré SA,Richardus JH,PILOT CT Study Group.

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Use of the stimulant methamphetamine (METH) is increasingly common, with >35 million users worldwide. There is a known association between stimulant use and an increased incidence of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). METH is known to have immune modulatory properties. However, the impact ...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Valencia F,Bubar MJ,Milligan G,Cunningham KA,Bourne N

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of serum IgG antibody to Mycoplasma hominis was studied by enzyme immunoassay in 150 women with suspected cervicitis at a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases. Positive levels of antibody were associated with gravidity and parity but not with age, method of birth control, or sexual behavior. Women fro...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Paavonen J,Miettinen A,Stevens CE,Kiviat N,Kuo CC,Stamm WE,Holmes KK

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of the diagnosis of gonorrhea by gram-stained smear and culture was made. Of 1,681 men with gonococcal urethritis, 1,437 (85.5%) were positive by both smear and culture; 151 (9%), by smear alone; and 93 (5.5%), by culture alone. Of 1,148 women with gonorrhea, 742 (64.6%) had infection in both the...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Goh BT,Varia KB,Ayliffe PF,Lim FK

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review of the treatment of patients exposed to gonorrhea uses decision analysis techniques to estimate and compare the probabilities of disease and treatment risks for epidemiologic treatment, for treatment contingent on results of gram stains and culture, and for treatment contingent on culture results alone. E...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Johnson RE

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Juvenile detention facilities house adolescents at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases. Collaboration between health departments and juvenile detention authorities can provide routine, cost-efficient chlamydia screening and treatment to females with limited access to care. We describe trends in scree...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Burghardt NO,Chow JM,Steiner A,Bauer HM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The impact of length of enrollment in a health plan on eligibility of women under the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) chlamydia screening measure is not fully understood. We assessed the representativeness of the measure among the proportion of women aged 15 to 24 years with a gap in...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Patel CG,Tao G

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies of alcohol use and sexual behavior in African populations have primarily been cross-sectional, used nonvalidated measures of alcohol use, or relied on self-reported sexual risk endpoints. Few have focused on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive women. METHODS:Longitudinal data were collected ...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： White D,Wilson KS,Masese LN,Wanje G,Jaoko W,Mandaliya K,Richardson BA,Kinuthia J,Simoni JM,McClelland RS

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite over a century of clinical experience in diagnosing and managing patients with syphilis, many thorny clinical questions remain unanswered. We focus on several areas of uncertainty for the clinician: the role of serologic tests in diagnosing syphilis and assessing syphilis treatment responses, and the risk of n...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Marra CM,Ghanem KG

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examined the use of HIV postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) among sexually assaulted adolescent females. METHODS:We analyzed data from the HIV PEP Project, an implementation and evaluation of a program of universal offering of PEP to sexual assault victims of all ages. Baseline and follow-up data were...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Du Mont J,Myhr TL,Husson H,Macdonald S,Rachlis A,Loutfy MR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At a clinic for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, 1,453 patients were examined for pharyngeal colonization with Neisseria gonorrhoeae. A history of oral sex was reported by 895 (61.2%) of the patients. N. gonorrhoeae was isolated from the pharynges of 42 (2.9%) of the 1,453 patients. Twenty-seven of the 42 p...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Osborne NG,Grubin L

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major global problem, transmitted primarily by percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood. GOAL:The goal of the study was to determine the seroprevalence of and risk factors for HCV among patients attending two urban STD clinics in Alberta. STUDY DESIGN:Anonymous unlinked sero...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Romanowski B,Preiksaitis J,Campbell P,Fenton J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Crack-smoking sexually transmitted disease (STD) patients are at high-risk for contracting HIV. GOAL OF THE STUDY:To examine the effects of cocaine use and other correlates on high-risk sexual behavior among STD clinic patients. STUDY DESIGN:This was a cross-sectional study of 1,490 consecut...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Hser YI,Chou CP,Hoffman V,Anglin MD

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In October 2009, a quadrivalent vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) was licensed in the United States for males aged 9 to 26 years. The attitudes and beliefs of parents play a critical role in uptake of this vaccine because parental consent is typically required for adolescent HPV vaccination. This study ...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Dempsey AF,Butchart A,Singer D,Clark S,Davis M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Recent trial results demonstrate that the transmission probability of HSV-2 in monogamous couples is nearly halved by the use of valacyclovir as suppressive therapy. GOAL:The goal of this study is to understand the potential impact of suppressive valacyclovir therapy on the transmission of HSV-2 within a po...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Williams JR,Jordan JC,Davis EA,Garnett GP

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated self-sampling to detect pharyngeal Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) infection among men who have sex with men attending a San Francisco STD clinic. The prevalence of pharyngeal NG and CT infection was 6.7% (32/480) and 1.3% (6/480), respectively. The percent agreement between self...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Freeman AH,Bernstein KT,Kohn RP,Philip S,Rauch LM,Klausner JD

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The past 10 years' wave of syphilis epidemics has challenged syphilis control programs. Although apparently connected to drugs-for-sex trading of crack cocaine, the genesis and resolution of these epidemics is poorly understood. GOALS OF THE STUDY:The goals of this study were to develop a mat...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Oxman GL,Smolkowski K,Noell J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the circulating genotypes and the frequency of macrolide-resistance patterns among Treponema pallidum pallidum DNA isolated from syphilitic lesions from patients who attended 2 sexual health clinics in Lima, Peru. We implemented and used a molecular typing scheme to describe local T. pallidum pallidum strain...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Flores JA,Vargas SK,Leon SR,Perez DG,Ramos LB,Chow J,Konda KA,Calvo GM,Salvatierra HJ,Klausner JD,Caceres CF

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the prevalence and correlates of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection among women attending an ethnically mixed, predominantly low-income, inner-city primary care clinic. STUDY DESIGN:Cross-sectional survey (N = 1,477). Demographic, behavioral, and reproductive history data were collected by qu...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Young TK,McNicol P,Beauvais J

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mobility is an important risk factor in the spread of HIV. GOAL:The goal was to conduct behavioral surveillance surveys on Hong Kong males crossing the border to mainland China to have sex with female sex workers (FSW) or nonregular female sex partners who were not FSW (NRP). STUDY DESIGN:Four surveys (199...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Lau JT,Tsui HY

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In every society, congenital syphilis (CS) has significant medical, economic, societal and emotional burdens; these are poorly characterized but high. Inexplicably, the elimination of CS has failed to attract international attention. Yet, the cornerstones of programs to do this universally are in place, the recent dev...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Schmid GP,Stoner BP,Hawkes S,Broutet N

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The success of an intervention to prevent syphilis will depend on the context and the goal of the intervention. To help programs choose interventions, we reviewed major changes in context and types of interventions that may be effective. METHODS:We reviewed the literature on the changing context of syphilis...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Peterman TA,Cha S

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Whether male circumcision reduces the risk of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection remains controversial. STUDY DESIGN:As there have now been a number of studies conducted that have examined this issue, we undertook to review their findings. Thirty epidemiological studies id...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Moses S,Plummer FA,Bradley JE,Ndinya-Achola JO,Nagelkerke NJ,Ronald AR

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV in Vanuatu is poorly defined. GOAL:The goal was to determine the prevalence of laboratory-confirmed gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomoniasis, syphilis seroreactivity, and HIV among pregnant women in Vila, Vanuatu. STUDY DESIGN:A cross-sectional...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Sullivan EA,Abel M,Tabrizi S,Garland SM,Grice A,Poumerol G,Taleo H,Chen S,Kaun K,O'Leary M,Kaldor J

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system was developed for the collection, coding, and processing of data from routine reports describing morbidity caused by gonorrhea. These data are coded centrally, and tables that provide information about the age, sex, race, source of care, and geographic and temporal distributions of the population affected by ...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Rothenberg RB

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:In the January-February, 1995 issue of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Zenilman and colleagues reported a null association between incident sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and self-reported condom use. That anomalous finding generated a flurry of letters to the editor, some of which were q...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Turner CF,Miller HG

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a large health insurance database in Germany, incidence of anogenital warts among 15- to 19-year-old females decreased from 316/100,000 person-years in 2007 to 242 in 2008 (23% reduction, P = 0.0001). The decrease started between the first and second quarter of 2007 (human papillomavirus vaccination was introduced ...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Mikolajczyk RT,Kraut AA,Horn J,Schulze-Rath R,Garbe E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about cross-border sex-networking behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) GOAL: The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of cross-border sex-networking in mainland China among MSM in Hong Kong and the associated risk behaviors STUDY:A telephone survey was conducted. A t...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Lau JT,Kim JH,Lau M,Tsui HY

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES:To describe partner notification practices for chlamydial infections among private sector clinicians. STUDY DESIGN:Telephone interviews of clinicians and patients identified through public health case reports in Seattle-King County, August-October 1998. RESULTS:Clinicians reported advising 135...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted diseases

authors： Golden MR,Whittington WL,Gorbach PM,Coronado N,Boyd MA,Holmes KK

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00