BACKGROUND The growing shale gas ("fracking") industry depends on a mobile workforce, whose influx could have social impacts on host communities. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can increase through sexual mixing patterns associated with labor migration. No prior studies have quantified the relationship between shale gas activity and rates of three reportable STIs: chlamydia, gonorrhea, ...

BACKGROUND Gonorrhoeae, a sexually transmitted disease caused by Neisseria gonorrhea for which humans are the only natural host. The causative organism is highly adapted to the genital tract and often causing asymptomatic and undetected infection in females in which Acquisition of gonococcal infection late in pregnancy can adversely affect labor and delivery as well as the well-being of the fet...

The familiar white urinals, puce-colored walls, and the queasy odor of disinfectant in M207—the men’s room on the mezzanine floor of the University of Pittsburgh’s medical school. I remember standing in a ragged line of seven young men across from the toilet stalls, pants stripped to my ankles. This was the moment, the crux of the clinical trial, the procedure that had seemed so trivial a few w...

This concise textbook is written by an international group of experts in photobiology. There are fifteen chapters dealing with a number of basic theoretical and practical aspects of the subject including photochemistry, photomedicine, and bioluminescence. It is unlikely that any individual will be equally interested in all. The quality of the writing is good, however, and terms are clearly defi...

In 1998, treatment completion was low among chlamydia and gonorrhea cases reported to the San Francisco Department of Public Health and assigned for treatment follow-up. To improve treatment completion among growing numbers of chlamydia and gonorrhea cases, the department implemented field-delivered therapy (FDT), a single-dose, directly observed therapy protocol for uncomplicated chlamydial an...

Sexually transmitted disease (STD) can be infected through sexual contacts. Some of the common STDs are syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia. Different STDs have different transmission mechanism, signs and symptoms, complications, diagnosis and treatments. This review article focuses on the mechanism of disease transmission, bacterial resistance and type of antibacterial drugs used for three commo...

Young adults have a higher risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than other age groups. This risk may be mediated by their social and cultural setting which can impact young adults' awareness of, beliefs in, and risk of contracting STIs (including HIV/AIDS). In order to understand how these factors vary among young adults of different cultures, it is important to study thes...

objective: sexually transmitted infections (stis) remain a public health problem of major significance in most parts of the world. this study aimed to detect the most prevalent pathogens in patients with signs and symptoms of sti referring to a group of university clinics in tehran. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study using randomized cluster sampling, 507 consecutive male and ...

BACKGROUND Ceftriaxone is the foundation of currently recommended gonorrhea treatment. There is an urgent need for backup treatment options for patients with cephalosporin allergy or infections due to suspected cephalosporin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae. We evaluated the efficacy and tolerability of 2 combinations of existing noncephalosporin antimicrobials for treatment of patients with uro...

Background and Objectives: In the recent decade, resistance of neisseria gonorrhea has increased as a result of vast and improper consumption of antibiotics. Moreover lack of information about the last patterns of antibiotic resistance and the way of development and transmission of this resistance is a great challenge to treatments of infections from these bacteria. This study was performed in ...