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Gonorrhoea screening programme.
In a 12-month period, a gonorrhoea screening programme was carried out and 192,983 cultures were collected from various sources in Tennessee; 7% were positive for gonococci. The positivity rate varied from 31-7% in veneral disease clinics to 0-5% in military dependants. The low yield of positive results in certain population groups suggests that selective groups of persons at high risk of infec...
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on mortality in the fortyforty-nine age group is still uncertain. The evidence from these trials led the committee to conclude that breast screening can reduce the mortality from breast cancer and this was, therefore, recommended. The whole matter then took on a political significance and it was decided to implement a countrywide screening programme within a very short period, (i.e. by 1990) co...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 1975
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.51.6.392