PID prevention: clinical and societal stakes.
Pelvic inflammatory disease continues to take its physical, psychological, and financial tolls. Prompt treatment of symptomatic disease and screening of asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic women for the major causative organism--Chlamydia trachomatis--are the keys to preventing serious sequelae, such as chronic pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy, and infertility.
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Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D000292:Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011322:Primary Prevention
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents