Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sexually Transmitted Disease Treatment Guidelines

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sexually Transmitted Disease Treatment Guidelines.

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) constitute an epidemic of tremendous magnitude, with an estimated 18.9 million persons acquiring a new STD each year [1]. Reported disease rates underestimate the true burden of infection because the majority of STDs are asymptomatic and therefore go undetected, and also because of underreporting. STDs have far-reaching public health consequences on the sexu...

Antibiotic therapy for acute pelvic inflammatory disease: the 2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines.

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a substantial cause of reproductive morbidity in young women. A systematic review of the literature related to PID management was performed in preparation for the 2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines. This search was conducted using PubMed and was limited to articles written in English and publish...

Anaerobes in pelvic inflammatory disease: implications for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidelines for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.

In preparing the 1998 sexually transmitted disease treatment guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we reviewed evidence regarding the need to eradicate anaerobes when treating pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Anaerobes are present in the upper genital tract during an episode of acute PID, with the prevalence dependent on the population under study. Vaginal anaerobes ca...

Tehran University students' knowledge about sexually transmitted disease

Introduction: Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) such as gonorrhea, syphilis and ‎trichomonias are the most common infection disease in the world. Since young adults are at ‎substantial risk for contracting STD and previous studies have shown youth poor knowledge ‎level.‎ Aim: The objective of this study is to determine the knowledge level about STD among ‎Tehran Univers...

[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)].