1Assistant Professor, Sri Devraj Urs Medical College
2Professor & HOD, Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, Department of Dermatology
3Registrar of Evaluation, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
4Former Professor & HOD, Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, Department of Dermatology
*Corresponding Author: Email: sathish04bmc@gmail.com
Online published on 15 September, 2016.
Viral sexually transmitted infections (STI s) such as human papilloma virus (HPV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections constitute an increasing proportion of the STI burden as an effective curative therapy is not available, which is in contrast to bacterial STI s where effective antibiotics are available as a curative therapy. Of particular concern is acquisition and transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and its implications
To study the trend of viral STIs among male STI patients attending a tertiary care centre.
It was prospective hospital based study conducted at tertiary care centre. The study included 135 male STI patients. A detailed history including sexual history, high risk behavior was taken and complete head to toe clinical examination was done. Patients were also subjected to ELISA for HIV 1&2 antibodies, VDRL, and other investigations relevant to STI s.
Descriptive statistics
A total of 135 male patients with STIs was included in the study and 64% of them had viral STIs, and rest 36% had non-viral STIs which included 56 cases of genital herpes, 25 of genital wart, 17 candidal balanoposthitis.
In our study, viral STI s were the most common STI s. Genital herpes was the most common among viral STI's followed by genital wart and molluscum contagiosum.
Human Immuno deficiency virus, Genital herpes, Genital wart, molluscum contagiosum, Viral Sexually transmitted infections
