Greco D, Giuliani M, Suligoi B, Panatta M, Giannetti A
Operational Centre for AIDS, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
Genitourin Med. 1990 Oct;66(5):383-6. doi: 10.1136/sti.66.5.383.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) surveillance has caught the attention of the Italian public health authorities during the past decades. The spread of HIV infection increased the awareness of the need for a better STD surveillance system. This paper reports a retrospective survey of STD clinics in Italy, intended to form an epidemiological base for further development of STD surveillance. The data for 1986-87 and 1988 on a predefined set of diseases, all of them sexually transmitted, were collected from 85 of 127 centres contacted. The data obtained offer the first national figures for some STD not included in the statutory notification list, such as chlamydial infection, herpes and genital warts, as well as HIV infections. Those data show an increase in time frequencies. For gonorrhoea and syphilis, it was possible to compare our data with statutory notifications, showing a large gap between notified and reported cases. This gap is not stable in time (increasing in time) or in geographical area (increasing from north to south).
在过去几十年中，性传播疾病（STD）监测引起了意大利公共卫生当局的关注。艾滋病毒感染的传播提高了人们对建立更好的性传播疾病监测系统必要性的认识。本文报告了对意大利性传播疾病诊所的一项回顾性调查，旨在为性传播疾病监测的进一步发展奠定流行病学基础。从联系的127个中心中的85个收集了1986 - 1987年和1988年关于一组预先定义的、均为性传播疾病的数据。所获得的数据提供了一些未列入法定报告清单的性传播疾病的首个全国数据，如衣原体感染、疱疹和尖锐湿疣，以及艾滋病毒感染情况。这些数据显示发病频率随时间增加。对于淋病和梅毒，我们能够将我们的数据与法定报告数据进行比较，结果显示报告病例与实际病例之间存在很大差距。这种差距在时间上（随时间增加）或地理区域上（从北向南增加）并不稳定。
