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32
Categorie Soggetti
Envirnomentale Medicine & Public Health","Medical Research General Topics
The objective of this study conducted at the sexually transmitted diseases
(STD) clinic of the Pasteur Institute of Morocco (SCPIM) is to describe cli
nical complaints and biological findings in patients attending this facilit
y. Two thousand two hundred sixty-four patients had visited the STD clinic
from 1992 to 1996. The main reported symptom was genital discharge for men
(44.5%) and women (68.6%). Genital eruption and ulcer were more frequent in
men. The principal biological result shows a seroprevalence of 0.62% for h
uman immunodeficiency virus (HIV), 3.05% for hepatitis B virus (HBV), 51.5%
for chlamydiae and 13.2% for syphilis. Factors associated with clinical fi
ndings were age and Gonococcus for men (odds ratio (OR): 1.94 and 5.96, res
pectively) and Trichomonas and positive TPHA for women (OR: 9.49 and 0.25,
respectively). This work describes for the first time the distribution of v
arious germs involved in sexually transmitted diseases in Moroccan populati
on and underlines the importance of studying its sexual behavior as well as
determinants of STD incidence.