The sensitivity of a syndromic management approach in detecting sexually transmitted diseases in patients at a public health clinic in Cape Town

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1337-1340

  Mathews, C ^a,b   Van Rensburg, A ^b   Coetzee, N ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c Cape Town City Health Department   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONSULTATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AFRICA; SYNDROME; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; VAGINITIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOUTH AFRICA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; ULCER;

EID: 0031726769     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. World Health Organisation. Management of patients with sexually transmitted diseases. Report of a WHO Study Group. World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser 1991; No. 810.
2. Grimwood A, Karpakis B, MacNab M, eds. Syndromic Approach to the Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. A Manual for the Western Cape. 1996 (available on request from authors).