Gonococcal infection as a cause of acute abdomen.

Gonococcal infection in the postantibiotic era continues to cause disseminated and severe disease in some patients. The differential diagnosis of pain in the lower abdomen in young women is difficult. Our case report described a 19-year-old patient who presented with acute abdomen as a result of Gonococcal infection, assessed as a local complication, pelveoperitonitis: pelvic inflammatory disease.

Syphilis and gonorrhoea in the Czech Republic.

Syphilis remains a public health problem in the Czech Republic and worldwide. The Czech Republic--until 1993 a part of Czechoslovakia--has a long tradition in public health activities, and STI surveillance is mainly focused on the infections traditionally called venereal diseases--syphilis, gonorrhoea, chancroid, and lymphogranuloma venereum. Campaigns from the early 1950s, were successful in controlling syphilis and gonorrhoea; and chancroid and lymphogranuloma venereum infections are extremely rare.

HIV infection and high risk behavior among patients attending an STD referral clinic in Prague, Czech Republic.

Objective: This survey was conducted to determine the prevalence of HIV infection and associated risk behaviour in a high risk population of clients attending an STD clinic in Prague, Czech Republic.

Methods: Between September 1994 and January 1995, clients entering the Apolinar STD clinic in Prague, Czech Republic, were enrolled in a blinded, unlinked HIV antibody seroprevalence study. Non-identifying demographic characteristics, STD diagnoses, HIV risk exposures, and voluntary HIV testing experience were extracted from medical charts.