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. 1981 Jun;57(3):181-3.
doi: 10.1136/sti.57.3.181.

Sexually, transmitted disease in clinic patients in Salisbury, Zimbabwe

A S Latif

Sexually, transmitted disease in clinic patients in Salisbury, Zimbabwe

A S Latif. Br J Vener Dis. 1981 Jun.

Abstract

During the three months between December 1979 and February 1980, 2867 patients attended a sexually transmitted diseases clinic. Of the 929 (32.4%) patients examined and interviewed clinical and laboratory finding showed that chancroid was the commonest disease (38.4%) and gonorrhoea almost as common (35.3%) in men. Pelvic inflammatory disease was the commonest disease (47.0%) and gonorrhoea the next commonest (22.7%) in women.

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