title: Venereal disease: what should the family doctor look for?
abstract: Venereal diseases, or sexually transmitted diseases as they are more aptly named, are emerging as a major medical problem. Although syphilis and gonorrhoea are the traditional venereal diseases, it is now widely accepted that sexual transmission occurs, at least to some degree, in a wide range of relatively common infective disorders. For the family physician coping with this group of diseases, there are a number of problems which include diagnostic difficulties, adequate supervision of treatment and general care and confidentiality within the family situation.
mesh_terms: D002177:Candidiasis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002602:Chancroid / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008219:Lymphogranuloma Venereum / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D013587:Syphilis / Q000175:diagnosis; D014245:Trichomonas Infections / Q000175:diagnosis; D014526:Urethritis / Q000175:diagnosis; D014860:Warts / Q000175:diagnosis