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Inadequacy of current guidelines for sexually transmitted infections
March 26th, 2009
Adolescent girls reveal alarmingly high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) which remain largely undetected by recommended screening guidelines. A study in Brazil, reported in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has shown that the syndromic approaches for screening and treating chlamydia and gonorrhoea are woefully inadequate. Maria de Fatima C. Alves and a team of researchers from the Federal Universities of Goias and Minas Gerais and the Family Health Program, Brazil, investigated chlamydia and gonorrhoea infections among sexually-active girls, aged 15-19 years in a socially-deprived region of the city of Goiania. They discovered that the frequency of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-03-26)
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