Bacterial vaginosis is not associated with circumcision status of the current male partner.

Objective: Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is common in sexually active women, and in a large proportion the underlying aetiology is unknown. We evaluated partner circumcision status as a potential risk and hypothesised that women with uncircumcised partners were at increased risk for BV.

Methods: Retrospective audit of a partner study (272 heterosexual couples) conducted in Baltimore between 1990 and 1992.

The geography of sexual partnerships in Baltimore: applications of core theory dynamics using a geographic information system.

Objective: Gonorrhea has a focused geographic distribution characterized by high incidence rates in defined "core" areas and decreased incidence as the radial distance from the central core increases. Dense cor group transmission has long been hypothesized.

Methods: We have previously mapped sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates in Baltimore census tracts using STD morbidity data interfaced with a geographic information system.

Susceptibility to vaccine-preventable diseases in a sexually transmitted disease clinic population.

Background And Objective: Sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics often serve a population that has low medical care utilization. The objective of this study was to determine the susceptibility of an STD clinic population to vaccine-preventable diseases.

Study Design: A cross-sectional study of immunization practices and susceptibility to vaccine-preventable diseases was undertaken by enrolling consecutive patients attending an STD clinic.

Reasons for not using condoms of clients at urban sexually transmitted diseases clinics.

Background And Goal: Greater understanding of the factors related to inconsistent condom use is essential in the development of strategies to promote condom use among clients who access public, inner-city sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinics. Therefore, this study aimed to explore reasons for not using condoms among 260 predominantly African American heterosexual male and female clients presenting for care at two inner-city STD clinics.

Study Design: Clients selected for this descriptive analysis reported having had at least one unprotected episode of sexual intercourse in the last 10 episodes.

Uterine stromal sarcoma cell line. A cytogenetic and electron microscopic study.

Uterine sarcomas constitute approximately 3% of all malignant uterine corpus tumors. Of these, the tumors that originate solely in the stromal elements of the uterine wall are relatively infrequent and have not been well characterized cytogenetically. We report data from a low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma both at the time of resection and after months in long-term tissue culture.