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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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