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- Title
How men with non-chlamydial, non-gonococcal urethritis are managed in Australasia.
- Authors
Teague, R.; Fairley, C. K.; Newton, D.; Bradshaw, C.; Donovan, B.; Bowden, F.; Cummings, R.; Chen, M. Y.
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to ascertain how sexual health physicians in Australia and New Zealand manage men with chlamydia-negative non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), particularly in relation to the notification of their female sexual partners. In July 2006, a cross-section survey was sent out to all the members of the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine. Seventy-three percent of sexual health physicians believed that female partners of men who present with chlamydia-negative NGU were at risk of adverse reproductive health outcomes. At least 62% usually initiated some form of partner notification of female partners of men with chlamydia-negative NGU. However, only 19% (21/111) of sexual health physicians routinely tested for, and only 65% sometimes tested for, pathogens other than Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis in men presenting with NGU. These included Mycoplasma genitalium, herpes simplex virus, ureaplasma species, Trichomonas vaginalis and adenoviruses.
- Subjects
AUSTRALASIA; NONGONOCOCCAL urethritis; DISEASES in men; PARTNER notification (Sexually transmitted diseases); REPRODUCTIVE health; HERPES simplex virus; TRICHOMONAS vaginalis; ADENOVIRUSES; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
International Journal of STD & AIDS, 2008, Vol 19, Issue 9, p581
- ISSN
0956-4624
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1258/ijsa.2008.007312