Sexually Transmitted Infections: 89 (2)

Whistlestop tour

Highlights from this issue (18 February, 2013) Free
Jackie A Cassell

Editorial

Chlamydia point-of-care testing: where are we now? (18 February, 2013)
Anu Jain, Catherine A Ison

BASHH Column

Patient confidentiality in sexual health services and electronic patient records (18 February, 2013)
Mary Poulton

Behaviour

Original article: Changes in high-risk sexual behaviour among Estonian adults between 1996 and 2006 (8 September, 2012)
Hedi Liivlaid, Anneli Uusküla

Clinical

Case report: Secondary syphilis mimicking inflammatory bowel disease (29 May, 2012)
Pedro Vasconcelos, João Borges-Costa, Helena Loreto, Sacramento Marques
Case report: Sexually transmitted diphtheria (23 May, 2012)
Anja Berger, Carmen Lensing, Regina Konrad, Ingrid Huber, Michael Hogardt, Andreas Sing
Short report:
Self-collected swabs of the urinary meatus diagnose more Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections than first catch urine from men
(28 September, 2012)
Max A Chernesky, Dan Jang, Eder Portillo, Marek Smieja, Jodi Gilchrist, Ruth Ewert, Cindy MacRitchie
Short report:
How likely is environmental or patient cross-contamination of Chlamydia trachomatis DNA to lead to false positive results in patients attending our clinic?
(4 October, 2012)
Sum Yee Chan, Sophie Jose, Rebecca King, Mark R Pakianathan, Caroline Sabin, S Tariq Sadiq, Phillip E Hay, Tim Planche

Health services research

Original article:
Comparative effectiveness of a rapid point-of-care test for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis among women in a clinical setting
(14 September, 2012)
Wei Huang, Charlotte A Gaydos, Mathilda R Barnes, Mary Jett-Goheen, Diane R Blake

Programme science

Introducing new diagnostics into STI control programmes: the importance of programme science (27 December, 2012)
Rosanna W Peeling, David Mabey, Ronald C Ballard

Epidemiology

Short report: Non-disclosure of HIV status in UK sexual health clinics—a pilot study to identify non-disclosure within a national unlinked anonymous seroprevalence survey (13 February, 2013) Free
Ann Kathleen Sullivan, Emma J Savage, Catherine M Lowndes, George Paul, Gary Murphy, Simon Carne, David J Back, O Noel Gill
Original article: High-risk human papillomavirus prevalence is associated with HIV infection among heterosexual men in Rakai, Uganda (24 May, 2012)
Aaron A R Tobian, Mary K Grabowski, Godfrey Kigozi, Patti E Gravitt, Kevin P Eaton, David Serwadda, Fred Nalugoda, Maria J Wawer, Thomas C Quinn, Ronald H Gray
Original article: Risk factors for syphilis infection in men who have sex with men: results of a case–control study in Lille, France (7 June, 2012)
Karen Champenois, Anthony Cousien, Bakhao Ndiaye, Yougoudou Soukouna, Véronique Baclet, Isabelle Alcaraz, Philippe Choisy, Pascal Chaud, Annie Velter, Anne Gallay, Yazdan Yazdanpanah
Original article: Cross-sectional study on the prevalence of HPV antibodies in the general population of the Czech Republic (8 June, 2012)
Eva Hamsikova, Viera Ludvikova, Jana Stasikova, Ruth Tachezy
Original article: External infections contribute minimally to HIV incidence among HIV sero-discordant couples in sub-Saharan Africa (28 August, 2012)
Hiam Chemaitelly, Laith J Abu-Raddad
Original article: Estimating the population size of men who have sex with men: a modified Laska, Meisner and Siegel procedure taking into account internet populations (1 September, 2012)
Hao Chen, Yanhui Zhang, Hongzhuan Tan, Dan Lin, Mengshi Chen, Niannian Chen, Yugang Bao, Shiwu Wen
Original article: Sexual behaviour and less frequent bathing are associated with higher human papillomavirus incidence in a cohort study of uncircumcised Kenyan men (1 September, 2012)
Danielle M Backes, Peter J F Snijders, Michael G Hudgens, Robert C Bailey, Martijn Bogaarts, Kawango Agot, Walter Agingu, Stephen Moses, Chris J L M Meijer, Jennifer S Smith
Original article: Prevalence of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and factors associated with syphilis among female sex workers in Panama (21 September, 2012)
Shilpa Hakre, Griselda Arteaga, Aurelio E Núñez, Christian T Bautista, Aimee Bolen, Maria Villarroel, Sheila A Peel, Gabriela Paz-Bailey, Paul T Scott, Juan M Pascale, the Panama HIV EPI Group

Education

How to treat persistent vaginal yeast infection due to species other than Candida albicans
(24 November, 2012)
Sophia Davies, Elizabeth Johnson, David White

Basic science

Original article:
Do Atopobium vaginae, Megasphaera sp. and Leptotrichia sp. change the local innate immune response and sialidase activity in bacterial vaginosis?
(16 October, 2012)
Camila Marconi, Gilbert G Donders, Cristina M G L Parada, Paulo C Giraldo, Márcia Guimarães da Silva

Review

It matters what you measure: a systematic literature review examining whether young people in poorer socioeconomic circumstances are more at risk of chlamydia (11 October, 2012)
Jessica Sheringham, Sue Mann, Ian Simms, Mai Stafford, Graham J Hart, Rosalind Raine

Letters

Do HIV POCT testing algorithms help in clinical practice? (18 February, 2013)
Richard Stack, Sundhiya Mandalia, Alan McOwan
A novel service promotion campaign using the social media site Facebook (18 January, 2013)
Daniel Bradshaw, Amelia Hughes, Sara Day
Where have young men been screened for STIs? (13 December, 2012)
Ummer Qadeer, Pippa Oakeshott, Roshni Patel, Azhar Ali, Magnus Theodorsson, Preeya Kundasamy

Miscellaneous

Book review: The pictorial atlas of common genito-urinary medicine (21 July, 2012)
Bryony Redfern
The morning after pill as an ‘easy’ option: the implication for STIs (8 October, 2012)
Frances Shiely

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March 2013 - Volume 89 - 2

Whistlestop tour

Editorial

BASHH Column

Behaviour

Clinical

Health services research

Programme science

Epidemiology

Education

Basic science

Review

Letters

Miscellaneous

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Table of contents

March 2013 - Volume 89 - 2

Whistlestop tour

Editorial

BASHH Column

Behaviour

Clinical

Health services research

Programme science

Epidemiology

Education

Basic science

Review

Letters

Miscellaneous

Issue Information