| prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus and sexually transmitted infections among cisgender and transgender women sex workers in greater kuala lumpur, malaysia: results from a respondent-driven sampling study. | sex workers face a disproportionate burden of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and sexually transmitted infections (sti) worldwide. for cisgender women sex workers (cwsw), global hiv prevalence is over 10%, whereas transgender women sex workers (twsw) face an hiv burden of 19% to 27%. | 2017 | 28708696 |
| urine as a diagnostic specimen for the detection of chlamydia trachomatis in malaysia by ligase chain reaction. | noninvasive urine screening for chlamydia trachomatis infections offers a valuable public health tool, which could be of vast importance in chlamydial control programs. the authors evaluated a new dna amplification method, ligase chain reaction (lcr). | 1996 | 8885072 |
| the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among prostitutes in malaysia. | the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases was determined among 370 prostitutes in kuala lumpur, malaysia. chlamydial cervicitis (26.5%) was detected more frequently than gonorrhoea (14.25%) and was associated more often with pelvic inflammatory disease. concurrent infections and asymptomatic infections were common. seropositivity to hepatitis b and syphilis were 66.3% and 13.6% respectively. women under 20 years of age had significantly higher rates of infection with chlamydia trachomatis ... | 1990 | 2245980 |
| a microbiological study of genital ulcers in kuala lumpur. | the microbial aetiology of genital ulcers was studied in 249 patients (241 men and 8 women) attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic in kuala lumpur, malaysia. herpes simplex virus type 2 was isolated in 48 (19.2%) patients, haemophilus ducreyi from 22 (8.8%), neisseria gonorrhoeae from seven (2.8%) and chlamydia trachomatis from four (1.6%). syphilis was diagnosed in 18 (7.2%) patients on the basis of dark field microscopy. two (0.8%) patients were found to have both chancroid and syphil ... | 1991 | 1839925 |
| urethritis in men at the genito-urinary medicine clinic kuala lumpur hospital. | the clinical features and aetiology of 100 consecutive symptomatic heterosexual male patients with urethritis were studied from march 1994 to august 1994 in the genito-urinary medicine (gum) clinic, kuala lumpur hospital. gonococcal urethritis (gu) was found to be more common (53%) than non-gonococcal urethritis(47%). all patients with gu confirmed microbiologically had clinically evident urethral discharge. almost half (41%) of the patients with gu developed post-gonococcal urethritis (pgu). th ... | 2003 | 14556323 |