Study of STDs in patients attending venereal disease clinics in Khartoum, Sudan.
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During the period October 1976 to January 1978, 290 patients were examined for sexually transmitted diseases in three venereal clinics in Khartoum Providence. Clinical and laboratory findings showed that nongonococcal urethritis was the commonest STD in men (35.1%), with gonorrhoea the second commonest (25.9%). Most of the patients with STDs were aged between 20 and 30 years. Of the infected men, 49.3% had acquired their infections from prostitutes.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of venereal diseases
دوره 55 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1979