STIs at the millennium. Past, present, and future. Report on the conference held 3-7 May 2000, Baltimore, Maryland, USASex Transm Inf 2000;76:218-219

Chippindale, Sarah; Lau, Richard; Radcliffe, K W

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“…Research has shown that most women with STIs are entirely asymptomatic, pauci-symptomatic, or even if symptoms exist, they are often unrecognized. 5,6,7,8 As such many women do not seek timely treatment for STIs, leading to severe underreporting and a gross underestimation of the true incidence and etiology of STIs in women.…”

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Bacterial etiology of sexually transmitted infections at a STI clinic in Ghana; use of multiplex real time PCR

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Background: Most sexually transmitted infection (STI) management efforts focus on the syndromic approach to diagnose and treat patients. However, most women with STIs have been shown to be entirely asymptomatic, or if symptoms exist, are often missed when either clinical or conventional bacteriologic diagnostic tools are employed.Methods: We assessed the performance of a multiplex real time PCR assay to describe other potential pathogens that could be missed by conventional bacteriological techniques in 200 women attending a routine STI clinic in Kumasi, Ghana.Results: Although a total 78.00% of the women were asymptomatic, 77.1% of them tested positive for at least one bacterial STI pathogen. Mycoplasma genitalium was the most commonly detectable pathogen present in 67.5% of all women. Of those testing positive, 25.0% had single infections, while 38.0% and 19.5% had double and triple infections respectively. Altogether, 86.54% and 90.91% of the symptomatic and asymptomatic women respectively tested positive for at least one pathogen (p<0.05). There were no significant associations (p<0.05) between the clinical manifestations of the symptomatic women and the pathogens detected in their samples.Conclusions: Our study confirmed the importance of complementing the syndromic approach to STI management with pathogen detection and most importantly recognise that STIs in women are asymptomatic and regular empirical testing even for both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients is critical for complete clinical treatment.Funding: EOD (Ellis Owusu-Dabo Research working group, KCCR)Keywords: Etiology, Syndromic, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Multiplex real time PCR

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Bacterial etiology of sexually transmitted infections at a STI clinic in Ghana; use of multiplex real time PCR

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Sexually transmitted infections based on the syndromic approach in Gondar town, northwest Ethiopia: a retrospective study

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BackgroundSexually transmitted infections are among the most common causes of illnesses in the world and have far reaching health, social and economic consequences. They are important because of their magnitude, potential complications and interactions with HIV/AIDS. Though the problem may be generally similar to other developing countries, there is scarce information on the incidence and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in Ethiopia. This study was then aimed to determine the magnitude of sexually transmitted infections among patients visiting a clinic in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia.MethodsMedical records of patients who visited the clinic from January 2011 to December 2011 were reviewed. Sociodemographic and clinical data were extracted using data extraction form. The data were entered and analyzed using SPSS version 16 statistical package. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square tests were carried out.ResultsA total of 1071 clients visited the clinic during the study period. Among these, 383 (35.8%) had complained symptoms of sexually transmitted infections. The mean (SD) age of the patients was 26.8 ± 7.4 years. The commonest chief complaints were vaginal discharge (38.4%) and urethral discharge (13.6%). Seventy seven percent of the cases did not bring their sexual partners for treatment.ConclusionThere was a high magnitude of STIs in the clinic according to the syndromic approach. However, the actual prevalence of STIs and the associated factors in the community need to be determined through further studies. The results of this study also urge the need for evaluation of the syndromic approach and test for antimicrobial resistance.

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STIs at the millennium. Past, present, and future. Report on the conference held 3-7 May 2000, Baltimore, Maryland, USASex Transm Inf 2000;76:218-219

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Bacterial etiology of sexually transmitted infections at a STI clinic in Ghana; use of multiplex real time PCR

Bacterial etiology of sexually transmitted infections at a STI clinic in Ghana; use of multiplex real time PCR

Sexually transmitted infections based on the syndromic approach in Gondar town, northwest Ethiopia: a retrospective study

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