Incidence of genital warts among the Hong Kong general adult population

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Number of patients presenting the genital warts symptoms in the studied clinics in Hong Kong during the study period (January 5 to January 18, 2009)

Type of doctor (Number participated/number contacted)	Total number of patients	Number of genital wart cases	Number of new genital wart cases
		N (%) *	N (%) *
Private doctors	73,036	96 (0.13)	27 (0.04)
GP (157/215)	69,671	64 (0.09)	17 (0.02)
O&G doctor (7/14)	770	16 (2.08)	0 (0.000)
D&V doctors (6/16)	2,595	16 (0.62)	10 (0.39)
Public doctors	3,024	625 (20.67)	46 (1.52)
Total	76,060	721 (0.95)	73 (0.10)

* The percentages of the genital warts symptoms were calculated by the number of patients with the genital wart symptoms divided by the total number of patients who sought medical care during the study period.

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