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Survey on Sexually Transmitted Infection Test of One Referral Laboratory in Seoul: Focused on Multiple Sexually Transmitted Diseases (서울 소재 일개 수탁 검사 기관에서 성병 검사의 실태조사: 다발성 성매개 감염병 중심으로)

  • Seok, Dong-In;Sung, Hyun Ho;Park, Chang-Eun
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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    • v.52 no.3
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    • pp.237-244
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    • 2020
  • Currently, sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are referred to as "sexually transmitted infections" (STIs) in the sense of including asymptomatic infections. STIs have a range of interrelationships. This study used the STI defined by the Minister of Health and Welfare of the Republic of Korea, and targeted syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia infection, chancroid, genital herpes simplex, condyloma, human papillomavirus, and non-gonococcal urethritis. The factors were characterized by identifying multiple and simultaneous STIs. This study used the data from the laboratory information system of a consigned inspection institution located in Seoul from 2014 to 2019. In this study, multiple STIs were identified as overlapping STIs of a double infectious source (10 types) and multiple STIs of a third infectious source (6 types). Among the 16 types of multiple STIs, U. urealyticum (9 types), HSV-2 (8 types), C. trachomatis (7 types), HPV 6, 11 (7 types), N. gonorrhoeae (6 types), and T. pallidum (1 type) were included. Therefore, additional research on interrelationship studies, such as STIs, which has the highest proportion of multiple STIs, will be necessary.