Gonococcal pelvic inflammatory disease: Case-finding observations Article

Potterat, JJ, Phillips, L, Rothenberg, RB et al. (1980). Gonococcal pelvic inflammatory disease: Case-finding observations . AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY, 138(7 PART 2), 1101-1104. 10.1016/0002-9378(80)91116-3

cited authors

  • Potterat, JJ; Phillips, L; Rothenberg, RB; Darrow, WW

authors

abstract

  • During a 20 month period, 110 women with gonococcal pelvic inflammatory disease and 165 women with uncomplicated gonorrhea were provided intensive case-finding services (interviewing of patients and tracing of contacts). Approximately three contacts per case were investigated, and 24.3% of the 859 male contacts were infected. Nearly two thirds (64.6%) of the infected contacts were asymptomatic. Active public health intervention was frequently necessary to persuade asymptomatic men to seek medical attention; removal of these men from the disease pool may serve to prevent reinfection of treated women and to diminish the transmission of gonorrhea. © 1980.

publication date

  • December 1, 1980

published in

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 1101

end page

  • 1104

volume

  • 138

issue

  • 7 PART 2