Risk factors of genital-urinary infection in women
- Authors: Grinenko G.V.1, Shalepo K.V.2, Savitcheva А.M.2, Ailamazyan Е.K.2, Chipitsyna Е.V.3, Domeika M.3
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Affiliations:
- State Medical University named after acad. I.P. Pavlova
- Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductology named after D.O. Ott
- Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control
- Issue: Vol 52, No 2 (2003)
- Pages: 95-100
- Section: Original Research
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/jowd/article/view/88857
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/JOWD88857
- ID: 88857
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The article represents the data of screening carried out on 905 women attended the outpatient departments of gynecologic clinics of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad region.
Infectious diseases of genital-urinary system were diagnosed in 65.5% of the women, 53.5% having asymptomatic course, which must be important in epidemiological respect. Risk factors and characteristic symptoms of the diseases were taken into account while analyzing the questionnaires. The valuable risk factors were young age, early debut of sexual intercourse and occasional sexual contacts, the history of STI as well as the pregnancy.
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##article.viewOnOriginalSite##About the authors
G. V. Grinenko
State Medical University named after acad. I.P. Pavlova
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Russian Federation, Saint-Petersburg
K. V. Shalepo
Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductology named after D.O. Ott
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgА. M. Savitcheva
Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductology named after D.O. Ott
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgЕ. K. Ailamazyan
Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductology named after D.O. Ott
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgЕ. V. Chipitsyna
Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control
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Sweden, Uppsala
M. Domeika
Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control
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Sweden, Uppsala