The Social Aspect of the Venereal Diseases-2: Contact Tracing and the Prostitute.

The Social Aspect of the Venereal Diseases-3: Contact Tracing.

New methods of contact tracing in infectious venereal diseases.

Asymptomatic urethral gonorrhoea in men.

Over a period of nine months 203 cases of urethral gonorrhoea were seen in 188 men. In 36 (17%) of the cases there were no symptoms, and in 14 (7%) the symptoms were considered so mild that the patients thought medical care was unnecessary. The symptomless patients and those with mild symptoms were found only as a result of efficient contact tracing. This high incidence illustrates the importan...

Measuring the outcome of contact tracing. 1. A description of the patient and contact populations studied.

A standard system for health workers to record and handle information on patients and contacts was introduced to five clinics. Information on all the patients interviewed during the first quarter of 1975 was collected and analysed. An analysis of the characteristics of these patients showed variation between the clinics. However, regardless of what was being measured, there were always differen...

Contact tracing in the control of STD in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Contact tracing carried out at this clinic was analysed as part of measures for control of sexually transmitted disease (STD). Results showed that 50% of 156 contacts could not be traced at all for various reasons, and that 47% of the contacts were brought in through persuasion by index patients who had been counselled at the clinic. Only four contacts were traced, and two of these attended the...