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Self-Obtained Vaginal Swabs Provide Opportunity To Improve Detection In Adolescent Girls.(of sexually transmitted diseases)
2001 JUL 5 - (NewsRx Network) -- Self-administered vaginal swabs increase the likelihood that adolescent girls will provide specimens for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) testing. according to an article in the June 2001 issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
Kim Smith. MT (ASCP), from the Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and colleagues studied 512 adolescent girls (aged 14 to 18 years) at high risk for STD infection and for pregnancy who were willing to use basic swabs to obtain vaginal specimens that were then tested for three common STDs: chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomonas (a parasitic infection).
All study participants were offered their choice of STD screening by either pelvic examination or using self-obtained vaginal swabs. All eligible participants chose self-administered vaginal swabs (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 2001:155:676-679).
Of the 512 participants who had self-administered swab tests analyzed, 147 (28.7%) had at least one treatable STD, and 28 (5.5%) were infected with two or more pathogens that cause STDs. The results showed that 17.8% of the adolescents were infected with chlamydia, 5.3% with gonorrhea, and 12.9% were infected with trichomonas.
The swabs were obtained in a local clinic. It took the participants three to four minutes to obtain the specimen with the swab. The swab specimens were then transported to laboratories and tested for STD-causing pathogens.
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