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New challenges for diagnosis of bacterial STIs

This year cases of sexually transmitted infections have risen by 2 percent in the UK, in spite of a small drop in the incidence of syphilis and gonorrhoea, according to scientists speaking today (Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007) at the Federation of Infection Societies Conference 2007 at the University of Cardiff, UK, which runs from Nov. 28-30, 2007.

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