
%0 Journal Article
%T Prepubertal infections with Neisseria gonorrhoeae: clinical and epidemiologic significance
%J Sexually transmitted diseases
%D 1978
%A Potterat, J. J.
%A Markewich, G. S.
%A Rothenberg, R.
%V 5
%N 1
%P 1-3
%X The family constellations and epidemiologic circumstances of three prepubertal girls with vulvovaginitis due to Neisseria gonorrhoeae are reported. In each instance, an infected asymptomatic man, himself a contact to a woman with pelvic inflammatory disease, could be implicated as the potential source of infection. In one instance, asymptomatic infection in a child was uncovered through epidemiologic investigation. Prepubertal gonococcal vaginitis is important not only as a potential indicator of child abuse, but also as a possible link to important transmitters of gonococcal infection. The need for meticulous epidemiologic investigation of these cases is stressed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
%@ 0148-5717
%U http://dx.doi.org/