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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Infect. 2015 Apr 1;91(7):473–478. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2014-051952

Table 2.

Symptoms and overlap of sexually-transmitted infections among pregnant adolescent girls.

Infection (Number, %) Asymptomatic Number (%) Ulcerative Number (%) Discharge Number (%) Other symptoms* Number (%) Co-infection with additional STIs
Number (%)
HSV-2 (139, 34.5)** 41 (29.5) 6 (4.3) 41 (29.5) 52 (37.4) 59 (42.4)
Gonorrhea (27, 6.7)** 9 (33.3) 1 (3.7) 11 (40.7) 7 (25.9) 20 (74.1)
Chlamydia (46, 11.4) 11 (23.9) 1 (2.2) 21 (45.7) 13 (28.3) 33 (71.7)
Syphilis (21,5.2) 3 (14.3) 1 (4.8) 8 (38.1) 9 (42.9) 19 (90.5)
Trichomoniasis** (55, 13.6) 4 (8.0) 2 (30) 39 (78.0) 10 (20.0) 35 (64.8)
At least one STI** (199, 49.4) 53 (26.6) 7 (3.5) 108 (54.3) 69 (34.7) 77 (38.7)
*

Other symptoms included lower abdominal pain, painful micturition, dyspareunia, and vaginal itching.

**

At least one girl with these infections had both ulcers and discharge.