| use of the internet and self-collected samples as a sexually transmissible infection intervention in rural illinois communities. | in the usa, reported cases of chlamydia (chlamydia trachomatis) continue to rise despite substantial funding for screening. national gonorrhoea (neisseria gonorrhoeae) rates have remained relatively stable, with clusters associated with metropolitan areas. rural areas are no exception, as every county in illinois reported cases of chlamydia in 2007. morbidity associated with infection remains a public health concern, with costs of $us2.5+ billion annually. novel screening interventions must be e ... | 2011 | 21371388 |
| prevalence of chlamydia and gonorrhoea among a population of men who have sex with men. | few data are available on the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (stds) in men who have sex with men (msm), making it difficult to develop std screening guidelines for this population. the objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of urethral infections caused by chlamydia trachomatis and neisseria gonorrhoeae within a large, community based population of msm, and to assess the feasibility of rectal screening in this population. | 2002 | 12238651 |
| serogroup y meningococcal disease--illinois, connecticut, and selected areas, united states, 1989-1996. | neisseria meningitidis is a leading cause of bacterial meningitis and sepsis in the united states. n. meningitidis is classified into serogroups based on the antigenic characteristics of its capsular polysaccharide. during 1989-1991 in the united states, serogroups b and c accounted for most (91%) of invasive meningococcal disease while serogroup y caused < 5%; however, during 1992-1995, serogroup y accounted for an increasing proportion of meningococcal disease. this report describes the epidem ... | 1996 | 8965799 |
| molecular epidemiology of neisseria meningitidis isolates from an outbreak of meningococcal disease among men who have sex with men, chicago, illinois, 2003. | we characterized five neisseria meningitidis serogroup c isolates from a chicago outbreak of meningococcal disease that occurred in 2003 among a community of men who have sex with men. isolates from this outbreak were identical to each other but distinct from the clone that caused a similar outbreak in canada in 2001. | 2007 | 17728467 |
| use of arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction analysis to type disease and carrier strains of neisseria meningitidis isolated during a university outbreak. | disease and carrier isolates of neisseria meningitidis from two regions of the united states were typed by the arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (pcr), or random amplified polymorphic dna (rapd), method. this technique generates strain-specific arrays of amplified dna fragments using low-stringency pcr with single, arbitrarily chosen primers. each of 3 disease isolates and 7 of 11 carrier isolates from an outbreak at the university of connecticut were indistinguishable using each of 4 ... | 1994 | 8195623 |
| a mass screening program for the detection of gonorrhea. | a 2 1/2 year gonorrhea screening program in chicago showed 7.5% of women tested to be positive for neisseria gonorrhoeae organisms with a single cervical culture. young patients, unmarried patients, and black patients had the highest attack rates. over 98% of those with positive cultures were treated, and this program has probably contributed to a decline in reported gonorrhea morbidity in the first 6 months of 1971. in another group 4816 women seen at a venereal disease clinic, 24.4% were po ... | 1972 | 4623083 |
| amplification of rdna loci to detect and type neisseria meningitidis and other eubacteria. | in 1991-92, neisseria meningitidis group c was isolated from the blood of eight students in urbana, illinois, usa, and from the cerebrospinal fluid of one student from a nearby community, decatur, illinois. these and other bacterial species were analysed by pcr fingerprinting using primers selected from the ribosomal (r)dna loci. a rdna primer pair spanning a region within the 16s rdna amplified a predicted 280 base pair (bp) dna fragment from neisseria spp. and fragments of different sizes for ... | 1993 | 8455644 |
| outbreak of serogroup c meningococcal disease associated with campus bar patronage. | between february 1991 and april 1992, eight undergraduates at a us residential university and one at a nearby 2-year college contracted serogroup c meningococcal disease. a case-control investigation with 20 controls per case, oropharyngeal carriage surveys, and multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (mee) of serogroup c isolates were used to identify factors contributing to the outbreak. all eight sterile-site isolates from cases were closely related by mee and were similar (though not identical) to ... | 1996 | 8610679 |
| from the centers for disease control and prevention. serogroup y meningococcal disease--illinois, connecticut, and selected areas, united states, 1989-1996. | | 1996 | 8968001 |
| outbreak of serogroup c meningococcal disease among preschool-aged children: illinois, 1996. | | 1998 | 9551025 |
| differences between sexes in the nasopharyngeal carriage of neisseria meningitidis. | nasopharyngeal carriage of neisseria meningitidis was investigated among male and female students sharing similar occupational and living environments at the u.s. naval hospital corps school, great lakes, illinois, in 1972-1973. when students beginning the study without meningococcal carriage were evaluated, meningococcal acquisition, weekly carrier prevalence, number of different serogroups carried, proportion of serogroup y carriers, and average duration of group y carriage were approximately ... | 1977 | 409282 |
| cervical microflora of pelvic inflammatory disease. | | 1987 | 2886481 |
| neisseria meningitidis serogroup y: incidence and description of clinical illness. | | 1974 | 4210436 |
| transgrow in winnebago county. | | 1973 | 4405699 |