If a patient has areportable sexually transmitted infectionsuch as syphilis or HIV, that diagnosis must be shared with a public health department, along with the names of the patient’s past partners so they can be informed and get tested, Klitzman said. And if doctors notice a spike in can...
They are simply false-positive, which is precisely why a two-tier diagnostic approach is used to maximise specificity. What does Canadian national and provincial human case surveillance suggest about under-reporting? Although LD had been a reportable disease in many provinces since the late 1980s,...