Prevalence and horizontal propagation of gonococcal infections among Nigerian children |
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Authors: | FE Emele CE Anyiwo |
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Affiliation: | Medical Microbiology Department, Usman Danfodio University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria. |
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Abstract: | The prevalence and mode of spread of gonococcal infections was studied among prepubertal children in Nigeria. Of 16 children with symptoms suggestive of sexually transmissible diseases (STD), 9 (56%) had gonorrhoea, while no causative organism was found in 7. The majority (7; 78%) of the gonococcal isolates produced penicillinase. Three of the cases were by child-to-child transmission, with female peers as the initiators. Prepubertal children should no longer be ignored as propagators of STD. |
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