title: [Up to date in sexually transmitted infections: epidemiology, diagnostic approaches and treatments].
abstract: In the last years, there have been important advances in sexually transmitted infections such as genome sequencing of Treponema pallidum, Chlamydia trachomatis or Mycoplasma genitalium; the new taxonomic position of Calymmatobacterium granulomatis; commercial diagnostic systems based on nucleic acid amplification; the emergence of quinolone resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae; new therapeutic approaches in vulvovaginal candidiasis that include boric acid; the demonstration that valacyclovir reduces the risk of transmission of genital herpes or the availability of immune-response modifier in the treatment of genital warts, and that are questions in the goal of this review. Viral hepatitis and HIV were no reviewed by space reasons.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Monte Naranco, Departamento de Biología Funcional, Area de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. fvazquez@uniovi.es
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vázquez
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Otero
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ordás
authors.forename: María Luisa
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Junquera
authors.forename: José Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Varela
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy