Regular Chlamydia screening recommended

Sexually active teenage girls should be screened for Chlamydia trachomatis infection every six months, not every 12 months as recommended, according to a study by US researchers published in JAMA (1998;280:521-6). High rates of infection and re-infection put young girls at risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, and ectopic pregnancy.

The study's leader, Dr Gale Burstein, a paediatric and adolescent medicine specialist at Johns Hopkins …