Disproportionate Impact of Sexually Transmitted Diseases on Women1

Disproportionate Impact of Sexually Transmitted Diseases on Women1

gence of psychotic symptoms complicates establishing direct links. While most reports have been ecologic studies without confirmed maternal infection, Brown et al. (10) found that 20.4% of persons with a documented in utero exposure to rubella developed an adult schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Experimentally, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection in a neonatal rat model produces some la...

The impact of sexually transmitted diseases on minority populations.

Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are more prevalent among some minority populations in the United States than they are among the white majority. Primary and secondary syphilis occurs 45 times as often among non-Hispanic blacks as among non-Hispanic whites and 13 times as often among Hispanics as among non-Hispanic whites, according to morbidity reports received in 1988 by the Centers for Dis...

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

Sexually transmitted diseases in sexually abused children.

To determine the prevalence and pattern of sexually transmitted diseases among sexually abused children, we evaluated 532 victims under 14 years of age for the presence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Treponema pallidum. Twenty-five girls with vaginal discharge and six children with perineal skin lesions underwent more detailed microbiologic examination. Thirty-four infections were identified in 3...

Sexually transmitted diseases on a tropical island.

Singapore is a bustling cosmopolitan island city, situated at the southern tip of Peninsula Malaysia. It is 602 square kilometres with a population density of 3784 persons per square kilometre. The population is made up of Chinese (76 %), Malays (15 %), Indians (7 %), and others (20%). The distribution of the sexes in the population is equal except for Indians who still exhibit a migrant patter...