Pattern of sexually transmitted infections in a Muslim majority region of North India.

Narayanan B also found genital ulcer more common than warts (condyloma acuminata), similar to other studies.[ 4 6 ] Herpes genitalis was the most common (50%) among the genetic ulcers as found in previous studies.[ 5 7 ] Increasing trend of herpes genitalis has been found in other studies as well.[ 7 8 9 10 11 12 ] Our study found good number of chancroid patients (24.07%), in accordance with some previous studies.[ 3 13 ] However, overall a decreasing trend for bacterial infections like chancroid, syphilis, gonorrhea has been noted in the literature.[ 5 ] Next most common presentation in our study was vaginal discharge found in 22.83% patients. 57.14% of these had vaginal candidiasis, 23.81% trichomoniasis, 9.52% bacterial vaginosis, 4.76% gonococcal urethritis, and 4.76% had mixed infection.

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There was an increasing trend in the number of cases registered during the 5 years, when the year wise distribution is considered.

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