Gonococcal Infection 01/04/01 - 30/06/01
Between 1 April and 30 June 2001, STD
Services received 54 notifications of gonococcal infection (Table 5.1).
This compares with a range of 49 to 96 infections per quarter during the
year 2000.
Thirty-five cases (65%) occurred in
males, and 19 (35%) in females (Table 5.1). Gonococcal
infection in males occurred in a wide age range with 12 cases (34%)
occurring in 20-24 year old men. In females, 84 % of cases occurred in
women aged less than 25 years (Table 5.1).
The racial origin was reported as
Aboriginal for 15 female cases (79%). In males, 15 cases (43%) were
Aboriginal and 18 (51%) were Caucasian. The proportion of males with
gonococcal infection reporting male-to-male sexual contact was 31%.
Thirty-one cases (57%) were diagnosed in
residents of South Australian communities in Central Australia. Of the
remaining 23 cases, the majority (78%) acquired infection in South
Australia.
Table 5.1
Gonococcal infection
detected in South Australia,
01/04/01 - 30/06/01 and year to date. Age group by sex.
|
Age
group
(years)
|
2nd
Quarter
01/04/01
- 30/06/01 |
Year
to date
01/01/01
- 30/06/01 |
| |
Male |
Female |
Male |
Female |
Total |
|
< 20 |
4 |
10 |
9 |
15 |
24 |
|
20 - 24 |
12 |
6 |
19 |
14 |
33 |
|
25 - 29 |
5 |
2 |
17 |
10 |
27 |
|
30 - 34 |
7 |
- |
21 |
6 |
27 |
|
35 - 39 |
5 |
- |
14 |
3 |
17 |
|
> 40 |
2 |
1 |
10 |
3 |
13 |
|
Total |
35 |
19 |
90 |
51 |
141 |
|
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