RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Sexually transmitted diseases in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a study of patients attending a teaching hospital clinic
JF The British Journal of Venereal Diseases
JO Br J Vener Dis
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 343
OP 345
DO 10.1136/sti.57.5.343
VO 57
IS 5
A1 S S Pareek
A1 M N H Chowdhury
YR 1981
UL http://sti.bmj.com/content/57/5/343.abstract
AB Of 716 men attending consecutively a dermatovenereological clinic in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, over a period of a year 70·1% had non-specific genital infection, a figure which is four times that for gonorrhoea and 13 times that for syphilis. Most of the patients were single men aged between 20 and 29 years and had acquired their infections abroad. Although Riyadh is a cosmopolitan city with a large foreign population 79% of the infections occurred in local inhabitants.