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Correspondence on ‘Sexually transmitted infections during the first 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic in Finland’ by Kuitunen et al
  1. Ilari Kuitunen1,2,
  2. VIlle Ponkilainen3,
  3. Ville M Mattila4,
  4. Mikko M Uimonen3
  1. 1 Mikkeli Central Hospital, Mikkeli, Finland
  2. 2 University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
  3. 3 Central Finland Hospital District, Jyvaskyla, Finland
  4. 4 Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ilari Kuitunen, Mikkeli Central Hospital, Mikkeli, Finland; ilari.kuitunen{at}uef.fi

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2022-055479

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    Social restrictions did not reduce Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) or Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) detections in Finland during the first 6 months of the pandemic.1 We explored the incidences of laboratory-confirmed CT, NG and Treponema pallidum (TP) findings from March 2020 to February 2022. Incidence rate ratio (IRR) was used in comparisons.

    We included a total of 103 292 CT, 3384 NG and 1407 TP detections (online supplemental file 1). There was minimal monthly variation in CT incidence (figure 1). During the second pandemic year, NG detections were higher in both …

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    • Contributors IK had the original idea. MU and VM participated in the conceptualisation. IK drafted the first version. IK and MU analysed the data. IK, MU, VM and VP participated in writing and revising the manuscript. VM provided resources. All of the authors had access to data and have approved the final version.

    • 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.

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