T HOUGH syphilis and gonorrhea have a common mode of spread, they do not yield to epidemiologic control measures in similar fashion. Lucas and associates (1) have pointed out several obstacles to satisfactory control of gonorrhea in women. We believe the most important of these is our inability to readily identify the asymptomatic female carrier of the disease. There are two principal ways in which such infected women may be located and brought to treatment. They can be named by men with recently diagnosed gonorrhea or they can be "accidentally" identified through routine screening programs. In either instance, is it of epidemiologic value to trace the chain of infection further by interviewing such patientsf How would casefinding compare with the results obtained from interviewing male gonorrhea patients? The opportunity to obtain such sta
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