Inadequacy of current guidelines for sexually transmitted infections
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 20:21
in Health & Medicine
Adolescent girls reveal alarmingly high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) which remain largely undetected by recommended screening guidelines. A study in Brazil, reported in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has shown that the syndromic approaches for screening and treating chlamydia and gonorrhoea are woefully inadequate.