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Pattern of sexually transmitted disease in Madurai, India.
  1. P Jeyasingh,
  2. T B Ramanaiah,
  3. S D Fernandes

    Abstract

    The pattern of sexually transmitted disease (STD) in a public clinic in Madurai City, India, was studied for 10 years (1974-83). Syphilis was found to be the most common STD in men (28.3%) and trichomoniasis in women (39.6%). The tropical STDs (chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, and granuloma inguinale) formed a sizeable proportion (30.1%) of all STDs. A tendency to overdiagnose chancroid and lymphogranuloma venereum and a failure to detect many cases of gonorrhoea reflected a lack of laboratory facilities.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/sti.61.6.399

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