ifferences." Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and
Mississippi had a 15 percent prevalence. "That's dramatically different from
states like Oregon and Washington, which once had that high rate, but brought it
down to less than 5 percent through screening and treatment," says Gaydos.
The study also points out a need for screening in men, Gaydos adds, to
stop both new disease and reinfection in treated soldiers. Men are less likely
to have untreated disease, she says, because they tend to have symptoms that
lead them to a doctor. Somewhere between half and three-quarters of infected
men experience a discharge and painful or difficult urination. "We hope this
will bring routine screening of both men and women in the Army," says Gaydos.
Funding for the study came from the Department of the Army.
Other researchers are M. Rene Howell and Barbara Pare, of Johns Hopkins;
Thomas C. Quinn, M.D., of Hopkins and NIH; Kathryn Clark, M.D., and Joel Gaydos
of The Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Md.; Dorothy Ellis and Rose Marie
Hendrix of the U.S. Army Medical Department Activity, Fort Jackson, S.C; and
Kelly McKee Jr, M.D., of the Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, N.C.
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Contact: Marjorie Centofanti
mcentofanti@jhmi.edu
(410) 955-8725
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
10-Sep-1998
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