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Epidemiology of syphilis among female sex workers and pregnant women during a period of increasing syphilis among women in Japan, 2019–2021

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  • Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

  • AK and MO contributed equally.

  • Contributors AK, MO, TT and Y Arima designed the study. AK, MO, TT, Y Arima, TA, HI, TY and MS verified the data. AK, MO, TT, and Y Arima analysed and interpreted the data. AK and MO wrote the first draft of the manuscript. TT, Y Arima, TA, HI, TY, YO, SN, Y Akeda and MS reviewed and provided important comments on the draft manuscript. TY obtained the funding. Y Arima and MS provided administrative or material support. All authors read and approved the manuscript.

  • Funding This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan (grant no. 21HA1003).

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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