Baseline infection with a sexually transmitted disease is highly predictive of reinfection during follow-up in Malagasy sex workers

Turner, A.N.; Feldblum, P.J.; Hoke, T.H.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases 37(9): 559-562

2010


ISSN/ISBN: 1537-4521
PMID: 20716996
DOI: 10.1097/olq.0b013e3181d70a03
Document Number: 222577
Female sex workers who had prevalent chlamydial, gonococcal, or trichomonal infection at enrollment into a randomized trial in Madagascar were 2 to 4 times as likely to become infected during follow-up, compared to women without STIs at baseline, despite provision of condoms, safer sex counseling, and repeat STI testing and treatment.

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