Sexually transmitted disease in Britain: 1985-6. Public Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre.
Year: 1989
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The first report in this series, which describes trends in sexually transmitted diseases in the United Kingdom, was for 1978.Yearly reports were published until 1984.The 1985 report was delayed and, although circulated privately in the PHLS communicable dis- ease report, was not published.This report, therefore covers the years 1985 and 1986.Data from previous years are also reported to describe trends during longer periods. Sources of dataReturns from departments of genitourinary medicine on DHSS form SBH60 in England, and similar documents in other countries of the UK, are the main sources of data.The clinic returns are analysed yearly by the four national departments of health, and these analyses are forwarded to the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC) for summation for the whole of the UK.On the recommendations of the Korner Committee,' the form SBH60 was replaced in 1988 by a new form, KC60 which permits the record- ing of data about sexual orientation, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections, and the ages of patients with each condition.Departments of genitourinary medicine have been asked to make quarterly returns, so that data may be analysed by both calendar and financial years, and to provide more up to date information on trends in various conditions.Reports by medical microbiologists are another source of data.These provide trends on infections resistant to antibiotics, such as those due to ,B lactamase producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae, limited information about extragenital infections with N gonor- rhoeae and the causative organisms of ophthalmia neonatorum, and unique data about HIV and hepatitis B virus infections.These data are collected by the CDSC in England and Wales, by the Communi- cable Diseases (Scotland) Unit (CD(S)U) in Scotland,
Source: Sexually Transmitted Infections
DOI: 10.1136/sti.65.2.117
Author: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
Language: English
Subfield: Microbiology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4248946884