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Proper clinical and public health treatment of patients with gonorrhea or chlamydial infection must include the treatment of their sexual partners. Such partners are often asymptomatic and, unless treated, will reinfect the index patient or spread infection to others. A traditional approach has been to deploy members of the health department field staff to notify exposed sex partners and bring them (at times literally) in for treatment. However, many health department resources are strained by the increasing prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and emerging threats, such as bioterrorism. Given these challenges and staffing shortages, health departments in many . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.

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