Inadequacy of current guidelines for sexually transmitted infections

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 08:36 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...

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