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Family doctors failing to test vulnerable groups for infection.
2003 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Family doctors are failing to test the most vulnerable groups for chlamydia infection, finds one study in Sexually Transmitted Infections, while another suggests that routine screening for the infection in emergency medicine departments might be a workable option.
Chlamydia is a bacterial infection which rarely produces symptoms and silently damages fertility if left untreated.
The numbers of chlamydia test samples sent during one year by 119 family doctor services to the public health laboratory for Nottingham District, U.K., were assessed. Test requests for chlamydia from primary care make up around 40% of the laboratory's workload.
As only one in 40 samples came from a man, the study focused on women. Altogether, over 7,000 chlamydia tests were requested from the 119 general practices.
Despite plenty of research evidence to show that those most likely to test positive for the infection are 15 to 19 year olds, followed by 20 to 24 year olds, almost two thirds of samples were taken from women over the age of 25. Women general practitioners were more likely to take ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Family doctors failing to test vulnerable groups for infection.