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Sex Transm Infect 78:349-351 doi:10.1136/sti.78.5.349
  • Adolescent sexual health

News from the frontline: sexually transmitted infections in teenagers attending a genitourinary clinic in south east London

Table 1

Diagnoses in teenagers and all women attending clinic

≤16 year olds All women
Diagnosis* No (%) No (%) χ2 p Value†
*Total number of diagnoses is >144 as some clients had >1 diagnosis; †χ2 analysis with Yates’s correction; ‡eg, genital warts, trichomonas vaginalis, herpes simplex and pediculosis pubis; §eg, candidiasis, bacterial vaginosis, urinary tract infection, family planning, and conditions not requiring treatment.
Chlamydia 34 (23) 86 (6) 15.8 <0.0001
Gonorrhoea 13 (9) 29 (3) 4.2 <0.05
PID 15 (10) 87 (8) 0 0.29
Other STI‡ 32 (22) 100 (9) 8.5 <0.005
Any STI 94 (64) 302 (28) 36.2 <0.000001
Non-STI§ 52 (36) 772 (72) 53.3 <0.01

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