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EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
卷 142, 期 11, 页码 2422-2432出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813003488
关键词
Estimating; infectious disease epidemiology; Neisseria gonorrhoea; prevalence of disease; public health; sexually transmitted diseases
资金
- Interdisciplinary Program in Infectious Diseases NIH training grant [T32 A1049816]
- Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Small Grant Program
- American Philosophical Society's Lewis & Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
- Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
- University of Michigan's Centers for the Study of Complex Systems and Social Epidemiology
- Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
- School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
The highly remote pastoralist communities in Kaokoland, Namibia, have long been presumed to have high gonorrhoea prevalence. To estimate gonorrhoea prevalence and correlates of infection, we conducted a cross-sectional study of 446 adults across 28 rural villages. Gonorrhoea status was determined from urethral and vaginal swabs via qPCR assay. All participants answered a closed-ended interview about demographics, sexual behaviour and symptom history. Sixteen per cent of participants had high-level infections (>= ID50 dose) and 48% had low-level infections (
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