A study on the comparison between clinical and microbiological diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases.
J Indian Med Assoc
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2002 Jun; 100(6): 372-5
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-101180
ABSTRACT
The efficacy of microbiological diagnosis in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has been evaluated in comparison with the clinical diagnosis. Amongst the clinical diagnoses of single STDs, syphilis, genital warts, gonorrhoea and herpes genitalis were the predominant ones. Syphilis was the most predominant infection in both the single and mixed STD infections in Chennai. Clinical diagnoses of trichomoniasis, genital chlamydiasis and genital herpes were more accurate and correlated well with laboratory investigations. On the other hand, clinical diagnoses of gonorrhoea, candidiasis and syphilis were less accurate. More over many of these cases, clinically diagnosed as single, infection, were also positive for other STDs in the laboratory investigations. Double infections were clinically diagnosed only in 7 cases as against 11 cases in microbiological tests and one triple infection diagnosed in microbiological tests was diagnosed only as single disease clinically. Therefore, the laboratory/microbiological investigations have been emphasised to have better accuracy of diagnosis of STDs.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Mass Screening
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Prevalence
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Risk Factors
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Cohort Studies
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Sensitivity and Specificity
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Adolescent
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Etiology study
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Incidence study
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Observational study
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Prevalence study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
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Screening study
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
J Indian Med Assoc
Year:
2002
Type:
Article
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