Abstract

PORTILLA C, José L; MOREIRA O, Luis; SAAVEDRA O, Miguel  and  RAMIREZ P, Marión. Prevalencia de infeccion por Neisseria Gonorrhoeae en trabajadoras sexuales atendidas en el Centro de Salud Antivenereo de Lima, 1995. Rev. perú. med. exp. salud publica [online]. 1997, vol.14, n.1, pp.15-18. ISSN 1726-4634.

Between June a December 1995, two hundred thirty-three commercial sex workers (CSW) with update health certificates and 171without were examined at the STD clinic in order to assess current gonococcal infection frecuency and detect beta-lactamase producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The findings showed a significant difference (0,014) between the frequency of isolation of gonococcus from legal CSW. Four out of 233 legal CSW were positive to Neisseria gonorrhoeae (1,72%) in contrast to 12 out of 171 illegal ones (7,02%) and only the 37,5% (6/16) of the total number of strains isolated were positive beta-lactamase producing.

Keywords : Neisseria gonorrhoeae; prevalence; commercial sex workers; beta-lactamase.

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