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Summary of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in South Australia, 1997

Note: The full epidemiologic report of STD Statistics in South Australia in 1997 is available for download in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format.

In 1997 there were 1052 (71/100,000) cases of chlamydia, 323 (22/100,000) cases of gonorrhoea and 31 (2/100,000) cases of syphilis detected in South Australia (see Table 1).

In 1997, 35 HIV cases were notified (1 case less than the previous year).

In 1997, 24 individuals were notified with an AIDS defining illness, and 28 individuals died of an AIDS defining illness.

During 1997, medical notifications of Hepatitis C infection included 51 incident cases.  Hepatitis B medical notifications in 1997 included 18 acute cases (see Table 2).

Table 1:  Sexually Transmitted Diseases: gonorrhoea, syphilis and chlamydia incidence 
               in South Australia, 1988-1997

Table 2: Blood Borne Infections in South Australia, 1987-1997

Infections Diagnosed at Clinic 275

The most common infection diagnosed at Clinic 275 continues to be genital warts (18% of male clinical episodes, 13% female).

Common conditions in males were:

• non specific urethritis (3%)
• balanitis (4%)
• urethral irritation (6%)
• chlamydia (3%)

In females the most common conditions were:

• candidiasis (12%)
• bacterial vaginosis (6%)
• genital herpes (3%)
• chlamydia (2%)

A high proportion of clients attending Clinic 275 had no illness (44% of males, 48% of females). Overall there were 14631 clinic attendances in 1997. (See Table 3).

Contact Tracing

Clinic 275 followed up 166 cases of chlamydial infection. Of these, contact tracing was effective in detecting 17 new cases in males and 12 in females, with a yield of 1.83 contacts per male index case and 1.75 contacts per female index case. Of the 29 new cases detected 12 individuals were examined within 2 days of being contacted.

For gonorrhoea six new cases were detected in contacts of males examined while no cases were detected in contacts of females examined for gonorrhoea.

Clinic 275

Table 3:   STD Diagnoses at Clinic 275, 1997

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