rss
Sex Transm Infect 2005;81:190
  • Brief Encounters

Brief Encounters

  1. Helen Ward,
  2. Rob Miller, Editors

      FINDING SYPHILIS IN THE HIV CLINIC

      Many HIV clinics now offer regular sexual health screening. Cohen et al went further and added syphilis screening into routine blood tests for people followed up for HIV care. In a one year period, 2389 syphilis tests were carried out when patients had routine CD4 tests. Forty early, asymptomatic syphilis cases were identified, a rate of 7.3 per 1000 patient years, and accounting for 36% of infectious syphilis cases at the centre.
 See p 217

      SUCK IT AND SEE

      Another recommended approach to syphilis case-finding in an outbreak is to move off site. Lambert and colleagues in Brighton followed this advice and took screening to various gay venues. They …

      [Full text of this article]

      This Article

      1. Extract
      2. Full text
      3. PDF

      Responses

      1. Submit a response
      2. No responses published

      Register for free content

      The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.

      Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.