STDs can have severe consequences to the patient when undiagnosed. Data shows that 18% of sexually active women presenting to the ED with urinary tract infection complaints were found to have an STD. This adds support to the notion that STDs can be difficult to diagnose and emphasizes the likelihood of misdiagnosis of STD because symptoms are often absent or easily misidentified as a simple urinary tract infection. Earlier, researchers found that 53% had STD as the cause.
All the studies showed high levels of STDs in general, with differing ratios of gonorrhea, Chlamydia and Trichomonas. The county of Wayne, Michigan was reported by the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) to have the highest number of reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis in 2001, which was seen as a 2% rate of syphilis is our study. There were minor differences in the patterns of STD presentation. None of…
