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Latent Syphilis Among Inpatients in an Urban Area of China

We aimed at investigating the epidemiological features of latent syphilis among inpatients in an urban area of China. During the period of Jan 1999 to Dec 2007, 146 inpatients were positive for treponema pallidum particle agglutination (TPPA) assay from 22,454 inpatients who were admitted to the Chi...

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Autores principales: Liu, Ai-Ying, Zang, Wen-Jing, Yuan, Ling-Ling, Chai, Yong-Li, Wang, ShuQi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25948433
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v7n3p249
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author Liu, Ai-Ying
Zang, Wen-Jing
Yuan, Ling-Ling
Chai, Yong-Li
Wang, ShuQi
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description We aimed at investigating the epidemiological features of latent syphilis among inpatients in an urban area of China. During the period of Jan 1999 to Dec 2007, 146 inpatients were positive for treponema pallidum particle agglutination (TPPA) assay from 22,454 inpatients who were admitted to the China Meitan General Hospital. The number of latent syphilis increased steadily during this period of time. From the 146 TPPA positive inpatients, 137 inpatients were diagnosed as latent syphilis. The number of male patients with latent syphilis was slightly more than the female, but there was no statistical significance (P>0.01). The number of male patients over 60 years old was 42 (30.66%), which was higher than other age groups (p<0.05). The number of female patients at the age range of 20-29 years was 20 (14.60%), which was higher than other age groups (p<0.05). Our results demonstrated that routine syphilis screening among inpatients proves to be one of the most effective precautionary measures to identify latent syphilis and thus to prevent transmission in urban areas in China.
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spelling pubmed-48020722016-04-21 Latent Syphilis Among Inpatients in an Urban Area of China Liu, Ai-Ying Zang, Wen-Jing Yuan, Ling-Ling Chai, Yong-Li Wang, ShuQi Glob J Health Sci Articles We aimed at investigating the epidemiological features of latent syphilis among inpatients in an urban area of China. During the period of Jan 1999 to Dec 2007, 146 inpatients were positive for treponema pallidum particle agglutination (TPPA) assay from 22,454 inpatients who were admitted to the China Meitan General Hospital. The number of latent syphilis increased steadily during this period of time. From the 146 TPPA positive inpatients, 137 inpatients were diagnosed as latent syphilis. The number of male patients with latent syphilis was slightly more than the female, but there was no statistical significance (P>0.01). The number of male patients over 60 years old was 42 (30.66%), which was higher than other age groups (p<0.05). The number of female patients at the age range of 20-29 years was 20 (14.60%), which was higher than other age groups (p<0.05). Our results demonstrated that routine syphilis screening among inpatients proves to be one of the most effective precautionary measures to identify latent syphilis and thus to prevent transmission in urban areas in China. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2015-05 2014-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4802072/ /pubmed/25948433 http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v7n3p249 Text en Copyright: © Canadian Center of Science and Education http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Latent Syphilis Among Inpatients in an Urban Area of China
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title_short Latent Syphilis Among Inpatients in an Urban Area of China
title_sort latent syphilis among inpatients in an urban area of china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25948433
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v7n3p249
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