To screen or not to screen: prevalence of C. trachomatis among sexually active asymptomatic male adolescents attending health maintenance pediatric visits
Accepted 13 June 2003.
Abstract
This study estimated the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) among sexually active, asymptomatic, multiethnic adolescent males attending preventive health maintenance visits at pediatric clinics within a large health maintenance organization. First-void urines of sexually active 14–18-year-old males were screened for CT. The CT infection rate was 4% (27/711), 95% CI = 2.5%, 5.5%.
aDivision of Adolescent Medicine and General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA (K.P.T., M.-A.S., S.P., R.H.P.)
bKaiser Permanente, San Francisco, California, USA (C.J.W.)
cDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA (J.M.N.)
dKaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, USA (A.C.T., T.H.K.)
Address correspondence to: Kathleen Tebb, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, 3333 California Street, Suite 245, Box 0503, San Francisco, CA 94143-0503, USA.
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