Global epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases
Global epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases
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DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(98)90001-0
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发表时间:
1998-06-01
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影响因子:
168.9
通讯作者:
Mertens, TE
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作者:
Gerbase, AC;Rowley, JT;Mertens, TE
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), or sexually often symptomless and when there are symptoms they are transmitted infections (STIs), have been recognised as a often not specific. For example, estimates indicate that major public-health problem for a number of years. In 70-75% of women infected with Chlamydia trachomatis 1912, Prince Morrow, chair of the US committee looking are symptom-free. In addition, the social stigma into the problem of venereal diseases, was quoted as associated with an STD may result in people seeking care saying “It is a conservative estimate that fully one-eighth from alternative providers or not seeking any care. As a of all human suffering comes from this source”.’Despite result, report-based STD surveillance systems tend to medical advances, STDs continue to pose a threat to the underestimate substantially the total number of new health and welfare of individuals. cases.In the last decade there have been considerable advances in the field of STDs. These have been fuelled to a large extent by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but also by increased recognition of the range and severity of complications and sequelae that can be linked to these infections a& the development of new case-management approaches. More than 30 bacterial, viral, and parasitic