Table of contents

Basic science

• Getting the measure of syphilis: qPCR to better understand early infection (13 September, 2011)

  Craig Tipple, Mariam O F Hanna, Samantha Hill, Jessica Daniel, David Goldmeier, Myra O McClure, Graham P Taylor
• High prevalence of macrolide resistant Treponema pallidum strains in a London centre (13 September, 2011) Free

  Craig Tipple, Myra O McClure, Graham P Taylor
• Rates of condom and non-condom-based anal intercourse practices among homosexually active men in Australia: deliberate HIV risk reduction? (13 September, 2011)

  Limin Mao, Susan C Kippax, Martin Holt, Garrett P Prestage, Iryna B Zablotska, John B F de Wit
• Acceptability of self-testing for trichomoniasis increases with experience (13 September, 2011)

  Jill S Huppert, Elizabeth A Hesse, Molly A Bernard, Yang Xiao, Bin Huang, Charlotte A Gaydos, Jessica A Kahn
• Chlamydia trachomatis serovars in community-based HIV-positive and HIV-negative men who have sex with men in Sydney, Australia (13 September, 2011)

  D J Templeton, J Twin, F Jin, A E Grulich, S M Garland, S N Tabrizi
• Analyses of multiple-site and concurrent Chlamydia trachomatis serovar infections, and serovar tissue tropism for urogenital versus rectal specimens in male and female patients (13 September, 2011)

  C J Bax, K D Quint, R P H Peters, S Ouburg, P M Oostvogel, J A E M Mutsaers, P J Dörr, S Schmidt, C Jansen, A P van Leeuwen, W G V Quint, J B Trimbos, C J L M Meijer, S A Morré