A seroepidemiologic study of prevalence of antibody to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was simultaneously done in four populations: group I, nuns working as nurses or school teachers; group II, women admitted to a upper socioeconomic private hospital; group III, women admitted to a lower socioeconomic county hospital, and group and IV women attending a veneral disease clinic. Groups II, III and IV, were ...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the relationship between sibling position and sexual risk based on behavioural and syphilis infection data from sexually transmitted infection (STI) patients in South China. DESIGN A cross-sectional study examining sexual behaviours and syphilis infection. SETTING 4 STI clinics in the Pearl River Delta of South China. PARTICIPANTS 1792 Chinese men and women ...

For centuries the man of medicine practised the relief of symptoms, his power to influence the processes of disease being strictly limited; the art of medicine was largely confined to providing circumstances favourable for the vis medicatrix naturae to function to the best advantage. When, however, Pasteur, Lister, and Koch turned the spot-light of science on the bacterial battlefield, knowledg...

Over the years several investigations have been made into the nationality of patients attending the venereal diseases clinics of Great Britain by the British Cooperative Clinical Group (1956, 1963a, b). The results of these surveys are of special interest in inland areas where promiscuity is found especially in migrant immigrants, but at seaports peripatetic native and foreign mariners are equa...