abstract：OBJECTIVE:To date, the epidemic of HIV infection in Scotland has been primarily associated with injecting drug use. However, the epidemiology of HIV in Scotland changed in the late 1980s, with homosexual men becoming the largest group at risk of HIV infection and AIDS. Our aim was to describe homosexual men's sexual ri...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： Hart GJ,Flowers P,Der GJ,Frankis JS

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of antiretroviral therapy in pregnancy is to deliver a healthy uninfected child to a healthy mother, without prejudicing the future treatment opportunities of the mother. The use of zidovudine monotherapy rapidly became standard practice once it had been shown to reduce by 67% mother to child transmission in w...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： Taylor GP,Lyall EG,Mercey D,Smith R,Chester T,Newell ML,Tudor-Williams G

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adamantiades-Behçet's disease was diagnosed in a 42 year old Turkish patient with recurrent oral aphthae, genital ulcerations, papules, and sterile pustules, histologically presenting as cutaneous vasculitis, and intermittent arthritis with joint effusion particularly of the knees. Six months after initial improvement...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： Meljanac N,Dippel E,Zouboulis CC

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the level of awareness of genital chlamydial infection, and level of knowledge related to this infection, in genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic attenders. METHODS:500 consecutive patients attending a GUM clinic for the first time during a 3 month study period were invited to complete an anonym...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： Kellock DJ,Piercy H,Rogstad KE

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, members of the TF/STD: share the common goal of reducing the STD burden and slowing the spread of HIV in the most affected and vulnerable countries in eastern Europe and central Asia contribute financially, technically, or in kind to the implementation of a joint strategy which aims: to create an enabling ...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： Waugh MA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the importance of world region of birth as a risk factor for HIV-1 infection, the likelihood of having an HIV-1 infection diagnosed and the likelihood of having another coexisting acute sexually transmitted infection (STI) among attenders at genitourinary medicine clinics. SUBJECTS:Specimens fr...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： McGarrigle CA,Nicoll A

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the predictive values for HIV infection of diagnosis of oral manifestations of the infection. METHOD:Prevalence of oral manifestations was compared in cross sectional blinded clinical examinations of homosexual men attending a genitourinary medicine clinic. Data were extrapolated to populations i...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： Robinson PG,Challacombe SJ,Sheiham A

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate local cellular immune responses in patients with acute urethritis. METHODS:We have established T cell lines from the urethral exudate and examined their phenotype by flow cytometry. As controls, T cell lines were cultured from first pass urine specimens of asymptomatic healthy individuals. R...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： Brunst M,Shahmanesh M,Sukthankar A,Pearce JH,Gaston JS

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To measure the prevalence of HSV-2 antibodies in a birth cohort of 21 year old New Zealanders from whom detailed sexual histories had been obtained, and to assess the potential for HSV-2 serology in characterising a young adult population's risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STD). METHODS:Sera from 784...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： Eberhart-Phillips J,Dickson NP,Paul C,Fawcett JP,Holland D,Taylor J,Cunningham AL

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) may be transmitted during sexual assault. In children, the isolation of a sexually transmitted organism may be the first indication that abuse has occurred. Although the presence of a sexually transmissible agent from a child beyond the neonatal period is suggestive of sexual abuse...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： Hammerschlag MR

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine feasibility, validity, and cost effectiveness of the syndromic approach to male patients with urethral discharge in Bandung, Indonesia. METHODS:The WHO algorithm on urethral discharge with no microscopy available was evaluated. Patients presented with a complaint of urethral discharge and if dis...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： Djajakusumah T,Sudigdoadi S,Keersmaekers K,Meheus A

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the validity and performance of a number of rapid indicators for the diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in female prostitutes in Dakar, Senegal; characteristics of these indicators were rapidly obtainable, easy to perform, accurate, useful at district level, and reasonable cost. MET...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： Ndoye I,Mboup S,De Schryver A,Van Dyck E,Moran J,Samb ND,Sakho ML,Thior I,Wade A,Heymann DL,Meheus A

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of aetiological tests for the diagnosis of individual sexually transmitted diseases (STD), the syndromic approach has been developed as an effective and appropriate case management strategy. Algorithms provide guidance to healthcare workers and ensure standardised approaches to case management. The synd...

journal_title：Sexually transmitted infections

authors： van Dam CJ,Becker KM,Ndowa F,Islam MQ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00