Sexually transmitted diseases in children: human papillomavirus infection.

Sexually transmitted diseases in children: human papillomavirus infection.

Sexually transmitted diseases in children: HIV infection.

Accepted for publication 21 May 1992 Epidemiology Of 10 million adults throughout the world with HIV infection, 75% have been infected through heterosexual transmission. This has resulted in an increasing number of women who have been infected, and with it, a rise in the numbers of children. Children under the age of 13 years with AIDS represent about 2% of all the total cases reported to the W...

Sexually transmitted diseases in sexually abused children.

To determine the prevalence and pattern of sexually transmitted diseases among sexually abused children, we evaluated 532 victims under 14 years of age for the presence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Treponema pallidum. Twenty-five girls with vaginal discharge and six children with perineal skin lesions underwent more detailed microbiologic examination. Thirty-four infections were identified in 3...

Sexually transmitted diseases in children.

Fifty eight (16%) of the 362 patients, who reported to Dermatology and STD Department with symptoms pertaining to their genitourinary system were below 14 years of age. Fifty four (93.1%) of these children belonged to families of lower socio-economic strata. All the children were slum dwellers and none of them had studied beyond the third class. Syphilis was seen in 27.6%, gonorrhea in 24.1%, c...

Sexually transmitted diseases in children: chlamydial oculo-genital infection.

serovars are sexually transmissible. Infection by the D-K serovars affects children of all ages but is uncommon in the prepubertal period. It ranges from perinatal and neonatal infection acquired from the mother, to prepubertal infection as a consequence of long term carriage or voluntary or involuntary sexual intercourse, to sexually transmitted adolescent infection. Infection by the LGV serov...