Sexual transmitted infection in a groups pregnant adolescents

Apolinar López Uribe; Miguel Domínguez; Gustavo R Pérez Pérez; María de la Paz Goldaraz; Iván Isidro Hernández Cañaveral

2008, Number 4

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Rev Fac Med UNAM 2008; 51 (4)

Sexual transmitted infection in a groups pregnant adolescents

López UA, Domínguez M, Pérez PGR, Goldaraz MP, Hernández CII

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ABSTRACT

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sexually transmitted infections (SI) represents a worldwide public health problem. Every day 900 thousand people get infected. STI can vulnerability, several factors predispose them to acquire STI like genital immaturity, physiological modifications of pregnancy, number of sexual partners and sociocultural components. The aim of this study was to determine the presence of STI in a group of 40 pregnant adolescents, using microbiologic diagnosis. The results showed that 23 patients (57.5%) had positive results for the epithelium aceto reactive test indicating cervical dysplasia, suggestive of infection by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Likewise, this study found, as causal agents of STI, C. albicans in 17.5% and G. vaginalis in 10% of the adolescents. There was no discovery of No Gonorrhoeae, T. vaginalis, T. pallidum, neither Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) nor Hepatitis C Virus (HCV).

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