title: Sexually transmitted diseases: incidence and distribution.
abstract: The incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) increased from 26.04 per 100000 in 1987 to 104.81 per 100000 in 1993 in selected areas of the country. Gonorrhea is by far the most common STD but its constituent ratio declined because of a rapid increase of nongonococcal uretheritis and genital warts during most recent years. The incidence of syphilis is relatively low and cases of congenital infection are noted. The wide spread of resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection gives a challenge to the therapeutical and control strategies of STDs. Sexually transmitted Chlamydia trachomatis infections, an important cause of urethritis, cervicitis and pelvic inflammatory disease, is becoming common in our country. Attention has been drawn on viral hepatitis in their means of transmission by sexually behaviors, and also, on the homosexuals, assumed to be the high risk group to catch STDs. Coordinated national efforts to control STDs in China have been taken.
authors.affiliation: National Center for STD and Leprosy Control, Institute of Dermatology, PUMC & CAMS, Nanjing.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D002690:Chlamydia Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D002692:Chlamydia trachomatis; D006069:Gonorrhea / Q000453:epidemiology; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D013587:Syphilis / Q000453:epidemiology