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Epidemiological trends in notified syphilis diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
  1. Célia Márcia Fernandes Maia1,
  2. Nelson Pereira Marques2,
  3. Verônica Oliveira Dias3,
  4. Daniella R. Barbosa Martelli3,
  5. Eduardo Araújo Oliveira4,5,
  6. Hercílio Martelli-Júnior3,6
  1. 1 Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, State University of Montes Claros, UNIMONTES, Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  2. 2 Department of Oral Diagnosis, State University of Campinas, Piracicaba, Brazil
  3. 3 Primary Care Postgraduate Program, Montes Claros State University, Montes Claros, Brazil
  4. 4 Department of Pediatrics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  5. 5 Nephrology Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
  6. 6 Center for Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies, Jose do Rosario Vellano University, Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  1. Correspondence to Dr Nelson Pereira Marques, Department of Oral Diagnosis, State University of Campinas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil; neomarques{at}hotmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2021-055240

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    • Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

    • Contributors CMFM: conceptualisation; data curation; formal analysis; investigation; methodology; roles/writing—original draft; writing—review and editing. NPM: conceptualisation; data curation; formal analysis; investigation; methodology; roles/writing—original draft; writing—review and editing. VOD: conceptualisation; formal analysis; writing—review and editing. DRBM: conceptualisation; formal analysis; writing—review and editing. EAO: formal analysis; investigation; methodology; writing—review and editing. HM-J: conceptualisation; formal analysis; methodology; project administration; supervision; roles/writing—original draft; writing—review and editing.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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