Genital tract infections

2022 ◽  
pp. 515-542
Author(s):  
Linda O. Eckert ◽  
Gretchen M. Lentz
Keyword(s):  
Genital Tract ◽  
Genital Tract Infections ◽  
Tract Infections

RESULTS OF LOWER GENITAL TRACT INFECTION INTERVENTION AMONG KHMER WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE IN CAN THO IN 2016

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-89
Author(s):  
Trung Thuan Phan ◽  
Dinh Binh Tran ◽  
Thanh Hue Dinh ◽  
Phong Son Dinh ◽  
Kieu Oanh Truong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genital Tract ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Effective Intervention ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Childbearing Age ◽  
Lower Genital Tract ◽  
Genital Tract Infections ◽  
Tract Infections ◽  
Can Tho City

Objectives: To find a model that is effective intervention to reduce the incidence of lower genital tract infections in Khmer women. Subjects and Methods: The intervention study is carried which compared the test group with the control group of 400 Khmer women, aged 15 to 49 in Can Tho city. Results: The common knowledge of the prevention of lower genital tract infections in the intervention group increased from 30.9% in the control group to 54.5% in the intervention group. The general attitude toward the use of lower genital tract infections increased from 22.3% in the control group to 78.0% in the intervention group. This is a very significant improvement. The prevalence of subclinical infection of the intervention group (26.0%) was significantly lower than that of the control group (39.3%), the difference was statistically significant. Conclusion: Intervention effectiveness is good in both knowledge, attitudes and practices, especially the effectiveness of interventions in practice in Khmer women. Key words: Effective intervention, lower genital tract infections, Khmer women, Can Tho city

scholarly journals A large outbreak of conjunctivitis caused by a single genotype of Neisseria gonorrhoeae distinct from those causing genital tract infections

2001 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. MAK ◽  
D. W. SMITH ◽  
G. B. HARNETT ◽  
A. J. PLANT
Keyword(s):  
Neisseria Gonorrhoeae ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Genital Tract ◽  
Aboriginal Populations ◽  
Single Genotype ◽  
Large Outbreak ◽  
Genital Tract Infections ◽  
Central Australia ◽  
Gonococcal Conjunctivitis ◽  
Tract Infections

Several epidemics of gonococcal conjunctivitis have occurred in Aboriginal populations in Central Australia. In 1997, the first outbreak in the Kimberley region of Western Australia occurred, spreading to Central Australia with a total of 447 cases. A genotyping method was applied directly to DNA extracted from patient samples to characterize the gonococcus causing the epidemic and to compare it with contemporaneous genital isolates. Those positive conjunctival specimens from Kimberley and Central Australia that could be genotyped were all indistinguishable, but were distinct from the genital gonococci, even when they shared the same auxotype and serotype. This suggested that the outbreak was due to a single genotype of Neisseria gonorrhoeae that had probably been carried between communities by infected individuals. We did not find evidence to support the existence of a genital reservoir of the types causing epidemic gonococcal conjunctivitis.

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