Do all women attending urban sexual health services need testing for gonorrhoea?
Tim R. H. Read A D , Marcus Y. Chen A , Catriona S. Bradshaw A B , Sriyakantha Beneragama C and Christopher K. Fairley A BA Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, 580 Swanston St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia.
B School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
C National STD/AIDS Control Programme, Sri Lanka.
D Corresponding author. Email: tread@mshc.org.au
Sexual Health 2(4) 259-260 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH05029
Submitted: 17 May 2005 Accepted: 8 July 2005 Published: 16 November 2005
Abstract
Asymptomatic women are often screened for gonorrhoea at Australian sexual health centres. The medical records of all women diagnosed with gonorrhoea at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC) between January 2002 and December 2003 were audited and the database was examined for risk factors in all women tested in 2003. Fifteen cases of gonorrhoea were identified among women at MSHC, all had symptoms or an identifiable risk factor. Asymptomatic women without risk factors may not require screening for Neisseria gonorrhoeae in low prevalence populations.
Acknowledgements
We thank David Lee and Ian Denham for their help.
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