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Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) Treatment Guidelines, 2002 after consultation meeting Atlanta, Georgia, during April, 2005, and then developed the new guidelines for the treatments of STDs, 2006. Included in these updated guidelines are an expanded diagnostic evaluation for cervicitis and trichomoniasis; new antimicrobial recommendations for trichomoniasis; additional data on the clinical efficacy of azithromycin for chlamydial infections in pregnancy; discussion of the role of Mycoplasma genitalium and trichomoniasis in urethritis/cervicitis and treatment?related implications; emergence of lymphogranuloma venereum protocolitis among men who have sex with men; expanded discussion of the criteria for spinal fluid examination to evaluate for neurosyphilis; the emergence of azithromycin resistant Treponema pallidum; increasing prevalence of quinolone?resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in MSM; revised discussion concerning the sexual transmission of hepatitis C; postexposure prophylaxis after sexual assault; and an expanded discussion of STD prevention approaches. These summaries rearranged 2006 CDC guidelines for the treatments of STDs around the urogenital STDs. Although these guidelines emphasize treatment, prevention strategies and diagnostic recommendations also are included.
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