Particularités des infections sexuellement transmissibles au retour d'un voyage

The number of international tourists continues to increase every year, so do the infections diagnosed at return, including sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Risk-taking during sexual intercourse is increased while travelling. STD-causing microorganisms such as Chlamydiae trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae or Trichomonas vaginalis are cosmopolitan, some such as Haemophilus ducreyi remains endemic in several regions and others. N. gonorrhoeae isolated in inter-tropical areas show very high antibiotic resistance rates. In this context, biologists play an important role, in pre-analytic step in collecting clinical and epidemiological data in order to adapt the specific analysis that could be performed as well as in post-analytic step in helping the physician to choose appropriate treatments, in giving advice to patients and in participating to the surveillance networks.