title: [Epidemiologic status of syphilis and gonorrhea in the area of Belgrade].
abstract: The authors present the epidemiological situation of venereal diseases (syphilis and gonorrhea) on the territory of Belgrade over the past twenty years with a detailed analysis of the past ten-year period. Constant decrease in morbidity rate was recorded in both diseases. The study showed that both diseases, expressed a high degree of parallelism in the dynamics of their appearance. Gonorrhoea was more frequent, with the rate of 1:4-41 in favour of gonorrhoea; the rate depended on the age. The incidence of gonorrhoea was 3.5 times higher in males than in females. However syphilis incidence was 2.5 times higher. The wafey endangered age groups for both diseases were 20-29 and 15-19 years for gonorrhoea, and 30-39 years for syphilis. In people working in catering services, tourism, public traffic, craftwork, as well as students and unemployed persons the highest frequency of these two diseases was observed. There was no seasonal difference in the incidence of syphilis, while gonorrhoea was frequent in the Summer months. There were differences in incidence (recent cases) and prevalence (number of recorded cases) of syphilis. Of the total number of annually recorded cases 30-60 per cent were recent cases. Repeated cases (especially of gonorrhoea) were frequent. The epidemiological research showed that approximately 37 per cent of primary source of infection were never recorded due to the lack of evidence and careless sexual contacts especially in the adolescent population.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marijanović
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lalosević
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006069:Gonorrhea / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D013587:Syphilis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015022:Yugoslavia / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: [Epidemiolosko stanje sifilisa i gonoreje na teritoriji Beograda.