[Systematic serologic detection of treponema at the antivenereal centre of the National Institute of Public Health in Abidjan (Côte-d'Ivoire), from 1994 to 1999].
We conducted a medical records review on 11,662 patients consulting the antivenereal clinic of Treichville from 1994 to 1999. The main objective of the study was to analyse the data from systematic screening of syphilis in this specialized centre for sexual transmitted infection. The results of this study were: 162 (1.39%) patients had active syphilis; we noticed a decreasing incidence of syphilis during the last six years, 98.77% of the patients had symptoms of sexual transmitted diseases that did not directly evoke syphilis. In summary we can say that syphilis remains an important problem in the sexually transmitted infections consultation. The screening of syphilis must continue and needs to be extended to other services, because of the high frequency of asymptomatic forms and the existence of severe complications.
Tiembre
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Institut national d'hygiène publique, BP V 14 Abidjan, Côte-d'Ivoire. itiembre@yahoo.fr
Dagnan
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Benie
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J
Attoh-Toure
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H
Ekra
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Kone
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Katchire
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N
Koffi
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Tagliante-Saracino
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J
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D007560:Cote d'Ivoire; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013587:Syphilis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D013588:Syphilis Serodiagnosis; D014210:Treponema pallidum / Q000302:isolation & purification*