ABC of sexually transmitted diseases. Genital herpes.

ABC of colorectal diseases. Sexually transmitted diseases and anal papillomas.

Genital Herpes: Insights into Sexually Transmitted Infectious Disease

Etiology, transmission and protection: Herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2) is a leading cause of sexually transmitted infections with recurring manifestations throughout the lifetime of infected hosts. Currently no effective vaccines or prophylactics exist that provide complete protection or immunity from the virus, which is endemic throughout the world. Pathology/Symptomatology: Primary and recurre...

Recurrent genital herpes in a population attending a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases.

Patients with recurrent genital herpes attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic were studied and transmission of the infection was elucidated by evaluating serostatus in their partners. Of 84 patients attending for recurrent genital herpes, 94% had a herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection and only 6% (5 patients) a type 1 infection. The mean age of the patients was 36 years and th...

Sexually transmitted diseases in children: chlamydial oculo-genital infection.

serovars are sexually transmissible. Infection by the D-K serovars affects children of all ages but is uncommon in the prepubertal period. It ranges from perinatal and neonatal infection acquired from the mother, to prepubertal infection as a consequence of long term carriage or voluntary or involuntary sexual intercourse, to sexually transmitted adolescent infection. Infection by the LGV serov...

[Sexually transmitted diseases (S.T.D.)].