Venereal disease: cost and treatment.Veneral disease: Cost and treatment Although other sexually transmitted diseases Sexually transmitted diseases Infections that are acquired and transmitted by sexual contact. Although virtually any infection may be transmitted during intimate contact, the term sexually transmitted disease is restricted to conditions that are largely are morefeared and attract more attention from scientists and the public, veneral disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common such illness in the United States, infecting more than 4 million people annually. According to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at San Francisco, C. trachomatis infections cost the United States more than $1.4 billion per year in direct and indirect costs. However, new approaches to treating gonorrhea might significantly reduce the price tag for C. trachomatis, say the researchers in the April 17 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, published 48 times per year by the American Medical Association. JAMA is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world. . They recommend that women being treated for gonorrheabe treated for chlamydia at the same time, using a combination therapy of ampicillin ampicillin (ăm'pĭsĭl`ĭn), a penicillin-type antibiotic that is effective against both gram-negative microorganisms and gram-positive microorganisms such as Escherichia coli. and tetracycline tetracycline (tĕ'trəsī`klēn), any of a group of antibiotics produced by bacteria of the genus Streptomyces. They are effective against a wide range of Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria, interfering with protein . Currently, treatment for gonorrhea is oral doses of either ampicillin or tetracycline, but ampicillin is ineffective against chlamydia and tetracycline is not quite as effective as ampicillin against gonorrhea. A combination dose is warranted, say the authors, because of the frequency with which the two infections coexist in a patient. Between 25 and 50 percent of women with gonorrhea also have a chlamydial infection, often asymptomatic. |
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