World Health Organization : Regioinal Office for Africa ; Year 1993 ; Africa Region, Education and Training, Issue 161 - in French: Seminale-Atelier International sur la Formation en Sante Publique dans la Region Africaine

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Title:	World Health Organization : Regioinal Office for Africa ; Year 1993 ; Africa Region, Education and Training, Issue 161 - in French: Seminale-Atelier International sur la Formation en Sante Publique dans la Region Africaine
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
In the European Region, comprising 830 million inhabitants, about 10 million new cases of chlamydial infection occur each year. Predominantly the agent causes acute inflannnatory diseases of the genito-urinary tract in both men and women, although a substantial proportion of infected people do not have symptoms that would make them seek medical aid. Screening programmes therefore are very important.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The infectious agent. disease spectrum and sequelae . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Infectious agent and disease spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Clinical manifestations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Sequelae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Incidence of infection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Prevalence of infection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Infection routes and contagiousness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Epidernio;ogical strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Detection of infected people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Contact-tracing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 The cost to the patient of examination and treatment . . . . . . . . 14 The responsible physician: requirements and actions . . . . . . . . 14 Collection of specimens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1& Rights and obligations of the infected person . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Information to the infected person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Suggested message for a doctor to a patient with Chlamydia trachomatis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Health education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Training of personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Information to students. military recruits. immigrants and others . 17 Counselling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Organization of control measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Functions of health authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Laboratory diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Sampling for culture tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Sampling where there is suspected concomitant gonococcal and chlamydia1 infection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Transport and storage of specimens for chlamydia1 culture . . . . . 22