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Higher Gonorrhea Rates among African Americans than among White Persons in the United States

Susan A. Wang, MD, MPH

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We thank Dr. Arkfeld for his letter. First, the Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP) is not designed to monitor gonorrhea incidence in the United States; it is a sentinel surveillance system to monitor antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Second, as noted in our Results section, which described the demographic characteristics of patients in the GISP, African-American men were underrepresented in GISP compared with their proportion among nationally reported male patients with gonorrhea. During 1988 to 2003, 74.1% of patients in the GISP were African American, whereas during that same period, 83.0% of male patients in the United States reported through the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System to have gonorrhea were African American. This figure comes from health care providers or laboratories who report gonorrhea cases to local health departments, which, in turn, report these results to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2005, the gonorrhea rate among African Americans was 18 times greater than the rate for white persons (1). Before 2005, the difference in gonorrhea rates between the 2 groups was larger (2).
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Wang SA. Higher Gonorrhea Rates among African Americans than among White Persons in the United States. Ann Intern Med. ;148:482–483. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-148-6-200803180-00016

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2008;148(6):482-483.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-148-6-200803180-00016

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