Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Diagnosis and Control
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 47179
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Interests: gram positive and negative microorganisms; multi drug resistance; H. pylori; natural components and their antibiofilm actions
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Interests: STDs; herpetic and HPV infections
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Interests: cutaneous mycotic infections; Leishmaniasis and sexually transmitted diseases
Interests: MDR; rapid method of diagnosis; H. pylori; L. pneumophila
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are considered an important aim for public health. This is due to the high morbidity correlated to STIs, such as the sequelae of reproductive tract infections, cervical cancer, congenital syphilis, ectopic pregnancy, and infertility, as well as the morbidity of HIV-related illness and death from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
In the nations that can give an etiological diagnostic approach, the laboratory of microbiology plays a central role in terms of diagnosis for specific STI pathogens and for the determination of antimicrobial susceptibility. Laboratories also have a key role to play in terms of STI surveillance and research programs within both resource-poor and more wealthy nations.
Today, via the syndromic management approach, it is possible to enstabilish diagnostic flowcharts for each STI syndrome. The flowcharts should be created on the basis of local etiological and antimicrobial susceptibility data obtained through periodic laboratory-based surveys.
The flowcharts should be also used for surveillance to determine how common an infection is within a community or population. This is an essential element of planning for STI control efforts.
The syndromic approach should be used during a screening program. Screening is an essential element of optimal STI management and control strategies, as all STIs may occur in an asymptomatic form or be unrecognized by infected persons. Notwithstanding the absence of identified symptoms, persons with asymptomatic infections may be at risk of transmission to others and complications of infection.
The advantage of surveillance for uncommon infections or infections with little direct impact on public health may not be highly prioritized if resources are inadequate, or if the infection is uncommon. Lastly, specimens collected for surveillance can be used to screen additional important factors, such as antimicrobial resistance (for example, in Neisseria gonorrhoeae).
Systematic surveillance of antimicrobial susceptibility and/or testing of specific isolates for susceptibility to the antimicrobial agents used for therapy provide information that can be used to adjust treatment recommendations in an anticipatory fashion, optimally before treatment failure becomes a problem.
Papers addressed to this topic are invited for this Special Issue, especially those reporting important data obtained via new methods used for diagnosis and those reporting epidemilogical data about STIs.
Dr. Teresa Fasciana
Prof. Giuseppina Capra
Dr. Dario Lipari
Dr. Anna Giammanco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sexually
- Diseases
- New diagnostic method
- Epidemiology
- Control
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