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  1. Kristine Shields1,
  2. Rayner Kay Jin Tan2,
  3. Stefano Rusconi3,4,
  4. Chen Xiang-Sheng5,6
  1. 1 Shields Medical Writing, Pipersville, Pennsylvania, USA
  2. 2 Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  3. 3 Universita" degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
  4. 4 Infectious Diseases Unit, DIBIC Luigi Sacco, Universita" degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
  5. 5 Deputy Director, National Center for STD Control, Nanjing, China
  6. 6 Professor, Institute of Dermatology, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Nanjing, China
  1. Correspondence to Dr Kristine Shields, Shields Medical Writing, Pipersville, PA 18947, USA; kristine.e.shields.drph{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2019-054276

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    Footnotes

    • Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

    • Contributors The first draft came from all four authors. Each were responsible for one or more synopses. All authors read and approved the final version.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.