Assessment of the routine, occupation-based gonorrhea and syphilis screening program in Moscow, Russia: an analysis of sexually transmitted infection prevalence and cost-effectiveness.

Objectives: In the Russian Federation, large sectors of the population regularly undergo mandatory occupational screening for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Objectives of our study were to determine the prevalence of syphilis and gonorrhea in the screened occupational groups in Moscow and to conduct a cost-effectiveness evaluation of the occupational screening program.

Study Design: Serum samples from 4 main occupational groups (food handlers and other food industry workers, market salespersons, education and health care providers, and hotel and other public utility workers) were tested for syphilis and gonorrhea.

Sweet's syndrome in patients with kidney and liver disorders.

Two patients with Sweet's syndrome are described. In the first patient the disorder was associated with urinary stone disease and in the second with chronic hepatitis. We compared skin lesions in patients with kidney and liver diseases with those in Sweet's syndrome.

Two cases of unilateral verrucous nevus.

We report two patients with epidermal nevus: one with linear verrucous nevus and one with inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus. The patients first showed manifestations of nevus at different ages (soon after birth and at the age of seven), and the findings progressed differently. In both cases, warty plaques were located unilaterally, strictly following Blaschko's lines.