TY - GEN
T1 - Gonococcal infections in newborns and in adolescents
AU - MacDonald, Noni
AU - Mailman, Tim
AU - Desai, Shalini
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Gonococcal (GC) genital tract infection was first recognized by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC and later given its name - "gonorrhea" meaning "flow of semen" - by Galen in second century AD (Woods 2005). Despite the passage of time, much research, the advent of sensitive and specific diagnostic tests and effective antimi-crobial therapy, gonorrhea remains one of the most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STI), in both industrialized and developing countries. This chapter focuses on gonococcal infections in two groups - newborns who acquire infection from their mothers at the time of delivery, and adolescents: a group at the center of the ongoing worldwide STI epidemic.
AB - Gonococcal (GC) genital tract infection was first recognized by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC and later given its name - "gonorrhea" meaning "flow of semen" - by Galen in second century AD (Woods 2005). Despite the passage of time, much research, the advent of sensitive and specific diagnostic tests and effective antimi-crobial therapy, gonorrhea remains one of the most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STI), in both industrialized and developing countries. This chapter focuses on gonococcal infections in two groups - newborns who acquire infection from their mothers at the time of delivery, and adolescents: a group at the center of the ongoing worldwide STI epidemic.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-73960-1_9
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-73960-1_9
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 18193661
AN - SCOPUS:39149122195
SN - 9780387739595
T3 - Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SP - 108
EP - 130
BT - Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children IV
A2 - Finn, Adam
A2 - Pollard, Andrew
ER -