TY - JOUR
AU - Cohen, Myron, S.
AB - Downloaded from http://journals.lww.com/stdjournal by BhDMf5ePHKbH4TTImqenVA5KvPVPZ0P5BEgU+IUTEfzO/GUWifn2IfwcEVVH9SSn on 06/12/2020 Sexually Transmitted Diseases, December 2006, Vol. 33, No. 12, p.726–736 DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000222703.12018.58 Copyright © 2006, American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association All rights reserved. China’s Syphilis Epidemic: A Systematic Review of Seroprevalence Studies CHARLES C. LIN, BA,*† XING GAO, MD,† XIANG-SHENG CHEN, MD, PHD,† QIANG CHEN, MD,† AND MYRON S. COHEN, MD‡ Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate syphilis From the *University of California, San Francisco School of prevalence among low- and high-risk groups in China. Medicine, San Francisco, California; the †National Center for STD Goal: The goal of this study was to explore the magnitude of Control, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) & Peking China’s syphilis epidemic. Union Medical College (PUMC) Institute of Dermatology, Nanjing, Study Design: A systematic literature review of syphilis seropreva- China; and the ‡Division of Infectious Diseases, University of lence studies in China was performed searching PubMed and the North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Chinese Periodicals Database (CPD). Results: Five and 169 studies were retrieved from PubMed and the CPD, respectively. From 2000 to 2005, select low-risk groups had the following median syphilis prevalence: antenatal women (0.45%), pre- profound stigma against STDs, which 
TI - China’s Syphilis Epidemic: A Systematic Review of Seroprevalence Studies
JF - Sexually Transmitted Diseases
DO - 10.1097/01.olq.0000222703.12018.58
DA - 2006-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/china-s-syphilis-epidemic-a-systematic-review-of-seroprevalence-N4NoC5lYiK
SP - 726
VL - 33
IS - 12
DP - DeepDyve
ER -