Biomedical subjects
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In a study of the sexual contacts of patients with primary and secondary syphilis, 65 of 127 (51%) contacts at risk developed syphilis. There was no significant difference between figures for homosexuals (48/98, 49%) and for heterosexuals (17/29, 58%). Our findings are similar to those of the prepenicillin era, but the question, Why are so few contacts infected? remains unanswered.
Gonorrhoea is a typical endemic disease. Its continuity has been traditionally attributed to the existence of a pool of infected promiscuous women. Alternative theories have suggested a dynamic approach which gives equal importance to the man and the woman. Models constructed to simulate the epidemiology of gonorrhoea have so far failed to be realistic. An hypothesis that the distribution of infections is limited by the number of opportunities for transmission presented by the pattern of sexual behaviour may explain the low prevalence of the disease in England.
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