thus , the author urges sociomedical researchers -- primarily medical sociologists , medical anthropologists , social psychologists , and public health economists -- to explore the cultural , socioeconomic , and behavioral factors contributing to the current 'epidemic ' of genital chlamydial infection , a sexually transmitted disease ( std ) that is found worldwide and has now supplanted gonorrhea as the most common std in the industrialized nations .
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