TABLE 1.
Distribution of current and previous STD and other variables in participating patients
| Sex | Current infection | n | No. of patients
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| Menses | Site of current N. gonorrhoeae infection
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Previous STD exposurea
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| Cervix | Rectum and cervix | Urethra | None | Ngo | Ctr | Tva | ||||
| Female | ||||||||||
| None | 18 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| N. gonorrhoeae | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||
| T. vaginalis and C. trachomatis | 13 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 3 | ||||
| N. gonorrhoeae, T. vaginalis, and C. trachomatis | 8 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Male | ||||||||||
| None | 11 | 7 | 4 | |||||||
| N. gonorrhoeae | 58 | 58 | 27 | 31 | ||||||
a
Patients were asked to provide a history of STD infections at the time of treatment; clinical confirmation of their responses was not possible. Ngo, N. gonorrhoeae; Ctr, C. trachomatis; Tva, T. vaginalis.