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November 27, 2020

Editorial
Implementing testing approaches for SARS-CoV-2 to address health disparities: lessons learned from sexually transmitted infections
Free

Christina T Chu, Brooke G Rogers, Michaela A Maynard, Siena C Napoleon, Philip A Chan

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054678

November 26, 2020

Education
Undetectable equals untransmittable (U = U): awareness and associations with health outcomes among people living with HIV in 25 countries

Chinyere Okoli, Nicolas Van de Velde, Bruce Richman, Brent Allan, Erika Castellanos, Benjamin Young, Garry Brough, Anton Eremin, Giulio Maria Corbelli, Marta Mc Britton, W. David Hardy, Patricia de los Rios

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054551

November 23, 2020

Health services research
An update on the performance of STI services for gay and bisexual men across European cities: results from the 2017 European MSM Internet Survey

Jason Doran, Peter Weatherburn, Ford Hickson, Ulrich Marcus, David Reid, Axel Jeremias Schmidt

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054681

November 20, 2020

Epidemiology
Effect of syphilis infection on HIV acquisition: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Meng Yin Wu, Hui Zi Gong, Kui Ru Hu, He-yi Zheng, Xia Wan, Jun Li

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054706

November 19, 2020

Health services research
Are all blood-based postal sampling kits the same? A comparative service evaluation of the performance of dried blood spot and mini tube sample collection systems for postal HIV and syphilis testing
Free

Matthew Page, Sowsan Atabani, Joseph Arumainayagam, Steven Wilson, Daniel Hartland, Stephen Taylor

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054692
Basic science
Characterisation of the novel clinical isolate X-4 containing a new tp0548 sequence-type

Dan Liu, Man-Li Tong, Li-Li Liu, Li-Rong Lin, Hui-Lin Zhang, Tian-Ci Yang

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054687

November 18, 2020

Behaviour
Modelling the contribution that different sexual practices involving the oropharynx and saliva have on Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections at multiple anatomical sites in men who have sex with men

Xianglong Xu, Eric P F Chow, Jason J Ong, Christian J P A Hoebe, Deborah Williamson, Mingwang Shen, Fabian Yuh Shiong Kong, Jane S Hocking, Christopher K Fairley, Lei Zhang

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054565
Clinical
Prevalence and clinical characteristics of patients with biologically false-positive reactions with serological syphilis testing in contemporary practice: 10-year experience at a tertiary academic hospital

Yuri Ishihara, Koh Okamoto, Hironori Shimosaka, Yoshikazu Ono, Yoshiaki Kanno, Mahoko Ikeda, Sohei Harada, Makoto Kurano, Shu Okugawa, Kyoji Moriya, Yutaka Yatomi

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054628
Miscellaneous
Pain in the eye: a case of gonococcal orbital cellulitis
Free

Sophie Miller, Tyler Degener, Pruthul Patel

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054850
Epidemiology
Incidence and duration of incident oropharyngeal gonorrhoea and chlamydia infections among men who have sex with men: prospective cohort study

Eric P F Chow, Lenka A Vodstrcil, Deborah A Williamson, Kate Maddaford, Jane S Hocking, Melinda Ashcroft, Vesna De Petra, Catriona S Bradshaw, Christopher K Fairley

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054764
Clinical
Sexually transmitted infections among women randomised to depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, a copper intrauterine device or a levonorgestrel implant

Jennifer Deese, Neena Philip, Margaret Lind, Khatija Ahmed, Joanne Batting, Mags Beksinska, Vinodh A Edward, Cheryl E Louw, Maricianah Onono, Thesla Palanee-Phillips, Jennifer A Smit, Jared M Baeten, Deborah Donnell, Timothy D Mastro, Nelly R Mugo, Kavita Nanda, Helen Rees, Charles Morrison

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054590

November 17, 2020

Behaviour
Love during lockdown: findings from an online survey examining the impact of COVID-19 on the sexual health of people living in Australia
Free

Jacqueline Coombe, Fabian Yuh Shiong Kong, Helen Bittleston, Henrietta Williams, Jane Tomnay, Alaina Vaisey, Sue Malta, Jane L Goller, Meredith Temple-Smith, Louise Bourchier, Andrew Lau, Eric P F Chow, Jane S Hocking

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054688

November 13, 2020

Research Letter
Improved sensitivity from pooled urine, pharyngeal and rectal specimens when using a molecular assay for the detection of chlamydia and gonorrhoea near point of care

Judith Ann Dean, Sara Fiona Elizabeth Bell, Luke Coffey, Joseph Debattista, Steven Badman, Andrew M Redmond, David M Whiley, Jime Lemoire, Owain David Williams, Chris Howard, Charles F Gilks

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054835
Clinical
Treatment of mild-to-moderate pelvic inflammatory disease with a short-course azithromycin-based regimen versus ofloxacin plus metronidazole: results of a multicentre, randomised controlled trial

Gillian Dean, Suneeta Soni, Rachel Pitt, Jonathan Ross, Caroline Sabin, Jennifer Whetham

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054468

November 10, 2020

Behaviour
Ask Dr Google: what STI do I have?

Pin Ming Lee, Rosalind Foster, Anna McNulty, Ruthy McIver, Prital Patel

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054619
Behaviour
Diverging trends in US male-female condom use by STI risk factors: a nationally representative study

Casey E Copen, Patricia J Dittus, Jami S Leichliter, Sagar Kumar, Sevgi O Aral

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054642
Clinical
Does being on HIV antiretroviral therapy increase the risk of syphilis? An analysis of a large national cohort of MSM living with HIV in England 2009–2016

Hester Allen, Peter Kirwan, Alison E Brown, Hamish Mohammed, Gwenda Hughes, Michael Marks, Valerie Delpech

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054603
Behaviour
Reduced sexual contacts with non-steady partners and less PrEP use among MSM in Belgium during the first weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown: results of an online survey

Thijs Reyniers, Anke Rotsaert, Estrelle Thunissen, Veerle Buffel, Caroline Masquillier, Ella Van Landeghem, Jef Vanhamel, Christiana Nöstlinger, Edwin Wouters, Marie Laga, Bea Vuylsteke

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054756

November 01, 2020

Research Letter
Reporting of sexually transmitted infections during the COVID-19 pandemic
Free

Matthew A Crane, Aleksandra Popovic, Andrew I Stolbach, Khalil G Ghanem

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054805

October 29, 2020

Epidemiology
Molecular screening in a longitudinal cohort of young men who have sex with men and young transgender women: associations with focus on the emerging sexually transmitted pathogen Mycoplasma genitalium

Erik Munson, Ethan Morgan, Laura Sienkiewicz, Yazmine Thomas, Kathleen Buehler, Daniel Ryan, Antonia Clifford, Brian Mustanski

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054463
Epidemiology
Factors associated with sexually transmitted infection diagnosis in women who have sex with women, women who have sex with men and women who have sex with both

Nazia Rahman, Khalil G Ghanem, Elizabeth Gilliams, Kathleen R Page, Susan Tuddenham

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054561

October 26, 2020

Miscellaneous
Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitalium coinfections and M. genitalium antimicrobial resistance in rectal specimens
Free

Rachel Pitt, Helen Fifer, Neil Woodford, Susan Hopkins, Michelle Jayne Cole

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054803
Behaviour
Factors associated with lower knowledge of HIV and STI transmission, testing and treatment among MSM in Ireland: findings from the MSM Internet Survey Ireland (MISI) 2015

Cian Carey, Kate O'Donnell, Martin Davoren, Mick Quinlan, Derval Igoe, Peter Barrett

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054469
Clinical
Single-tablet regimen of emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate plus cobicistat-boosted elvitegravir increase adherence for HIV postexposure prophylaxis in sexual assault victims

Stefano Malinverni, Floriane Bédoret, Magali Bartiaux, Christine Gilles, Stéphane De Wit, Agnes Libois

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054714
Epidemiology
Lymphogranuloma venereum genovariants in men having sex with men in Italy

Antonella Marangoni, Claudio Foschi, Federico Tartari, Valeria Gaspari, Maria Carla Re

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054700

October 21, 2020

Behaviour
Potential interactions between the pathways to diagnosis of HIV and other STIs and HIV self-testing: insights from a qualitative study of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Singapore

Rayner Kay Jin Tan, Yin Ying Chan, Muhamad Alif Bin Ibrahim, Lai Peng Ho, Oliver Zikai Lim, Bryan Chee Hong Choong, Martin Tze-Wei Chio, Mark I-Cheng Chen, Christina Misa Wong

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054623

October 20, 2020

How to do it
Implementation of a standardised and quality-assured enhanced gonococcal antimicrobial surveillance programme in accordance with WHO protocols in Kampala, Uganda

Francis Kakooza, Patrick Musinguzi, Meklit Workneh, Richard Walwema, Peter Kyambadde, Emmanuel Mande, Christopher Lubega, Jhamira M Nakasi, Reuben Kiggundu, Matthew M Hamill, Bernard S Bagaya, Mohammed Lamorde, Magnus Unemo, Yukari C Manabe

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054581
Clinical
Modified self-obtained pooled sampling to screen for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections in men who have sex with men

Naokatsu Ando, Daisuke Mizushima, Koji Watanabe, Misao Takano, Daisuke Shiojiri, Haruka Uemura, Takahiro AOKI, Yasuaki Yanagawa, Yoshimi Kikuchi, Shinichi Oka, Hiroyuki Gatanaga

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054666
Research Letter
Diagnoses of syphilis and HIV infection during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
Free

Chun-Chieh Chia, Chien-Ming Chao, Chih-Cheng Lai

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054802
Epidemiology
Prevalence and factors associated with HIV epidemic among female sex workers in Pakistan: results of the fifth round of integrated biological and behavioural surveillance

Faran Emmanuel, Baseer Khan Achakzai, Tahira Reza

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054526
Epidemiology
Factors associated with reporting antibiotic use as STI prophylaxis among HIV PrEP users: findings from a cross-sectional online community survey, May–July 2019, UK

Charlotte O'Halloran, Sara Croxford, Hamish Mohammed, Owen Noel Gill, Gwenda Hughes, Helen Fifer, Hester Allen, Greg Owen, Will Nutland, Valerie Delpech, John Michael Saunders

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054592
Behaviour
International Sexual Health And REproductive health (I-SHARE) survey during COVID-19: study protocol for online national surveys and global comparative analyses
Free

Kristien Michielsen, Elin C Larrson, Anna Kågesten, Jennifer Toller Erausquin, Sally Griffin, Sarah Van de Velde, Joseph D Tucker on behalf of the I-SHARE Team

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054664

October 12, 2020

Miscellaneous
Ensuring retention in care for people living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic in Rome, Italy
Free

Massimo Giuliani, Maria Gabriella Donà, Antonia La Malfa, Matilde S Pasquantonio, Fulvia Pimpinelli, Antonio Cristaudo, Alessandra Latini

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054650

October 07, 2020

Miscellaneous
Emerging impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on sexual health in Lebanon
Free

Ismael Maatouk, Moubadda Assi, Rusi Jaspal

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054734

October 01, 2020

Epidemiology
Prevalence, incidence and associated risk factors of STIs during pregnancy in South Africa

Dorothy Chiwoniso Nyemba, Andrew Medina-Marino, Remco P H Peters, Jeffrey D Klausner, Phuti Ngwepe, Landon Myer, Leigh Francis Johnson, Dvora Joseph Davey

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054631

September 28, 2020

Clinical
Hormonal contraception and risk of STIs and bacterial vaginosis in South African adolescents: secondary analysis of a randomised trial

Christina Balle, Katherine Gill, Iyaloo N Konstantinus, Shameem Z Jaumdally, Katie Lennard, Rachel Esra, Anna-Ursula Happel, Shaun L Barnabas, Hoyam Gamieldien, Tanya Pidwell, Venessa Maseko, Maia Lesosky, Landon Myer, Jo-Ann S Passmore, Linda-Gail Bekker, Heather B Jaspan

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054483

September 23, 2020

Behaviour
Early impact of COVID-19 social distancing measures on reported sexual behaviour of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis users in Wales

David Gillespie, Carys Knapper, Dyfrig Hughes, Zoe Couzens, Fiona Wood, Marijn de Bruin, Richard Ma, Adam Thomas Jones, Adam Williams, Kerenza Hood

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054598

September 22, 2020

Miscellaneous
Increase in reported domestic abuse in Integrated Sexual Health (ISH) services in London and Surrey during COVID-19 ‘lockdown’: successful application of national guidance on routine enquiry during rapid transition to remote telephone consultation (telemedicine)

Sophie Joanne Weller, Daniel Tippetts, Daniel Weston, Robert W Aldridge, Jane Ashby

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054722

September 16, 2020

Epidemiology
Human alphaherpesvirus 2 (HSV-2) among female sex workers from Brazil: cross-sectional study using respondent-driven sampling

Lyana Rodrigues Pinto Lima, Nathália Alves Araujo Almeida, Marco Aurélio Pereira Horta, Vinicius S Belo, Alexandre Santos da Silva, Gina Jonasson Mousquer Capelin, Fernanda Rodas Pires Fernandes, Marco Antonio Moreira Puga, Grazielli Rocha de Rezende, Tayana Serpa Ortiz Tanaka, Lisie Souza Castro, Ana Rita Coimbra Motta-Castro, Vanessa Salete de Paula

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2019-054400
Miscellaneous
Correction: Research news in clinical context
Free

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2019-054271corr1

September 15, 2020

Miscellaneous
Sexually transmitted Shigella flexneri and Shigella sonnei in men who have sex with men
Free

Daniel Richardson, John Devlin, Colin Fitzpatrick, Nicolas Pinto-Sander

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054589

September 14, 2020

Clinical
Descriptive account of 18 adults with known HIV infection hospitalised with SARS-CoV-2 infection

Sara Madge, Tristan J Barber, Alan Hunter, Sanjay Bhagani, Marc Lipman, Fiona Burns

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054660

September 11, 2020

Miscellaneous
Does providing laboratory confirmed STI results impact uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake among Kenyan adolescents girls and young women? A descriptive analysis
Free

Lynda Myra Oluoch, Alison Roxby, Nelly Mugo, Anna Wald, Kenneth Ngure, Stacy Selke, Bhavna Chohan, Catherine Kiptinness, Kenneth Tapia, Murugi Micheni, Stephen Gakuo Maina, Edinah Casmir

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054637

September 10, 2020

Epidemiology
Mycoplasma genitalium coinfection in men with symptomatic gonococcal urethritis

Daniel Richardson, David A Lewis, Neisha J Jeoffreys, Deborah L Couldwell

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054529

September 03, 2020

Epidemiology
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and oropharyngeal HPV in ethnically diverse, sexually active adolescents: community-based cross-sectional study

Sarah Kerry-Barnard, Simon Beddows, Fiona Reid, Nicholas Beckley-Hoelscher, Kate Soldan, Kavita Panwar, Cangul Seran, Charlotte Fleming, Agata Lesniewska, Tim Planche, Jonathan Williamson, Phillip Hay, Pippa Oakeshott

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054428

September 02, 2020

Research Letter
Pre-exposure HIV prophylaxis (PrEP) among transgender women: 3 years of follow-up in a university hospital in Paris

Valentina Isernia, Bao Phung, Annie Marie Lepretre, Bahar Azadi, Giovanna Rincon, Julia Zelie, Sylvie Le Gac, Andres Deprez, Florence Michard, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Jade Ghosn

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054618

August 28, 2020

Epidemiology
Prevalence and determinants of genital Chlamydia trachomatis among school-going, sexually experienced adolescents in urban and rural Indigenous regions of Panama

Amanda Gabster, Philippe Mayaud, Alma Ortiz, Jorge Castillo, Omar Castillero, Alexander Martínez, Anyelini López, Betsy Aizprúa, Sherly Pitano, Anet Murillo, Juan Miguel Pascale

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2019-054395

August 26, 2020

Basic science
Genital HSV-1 DNA detection is associated with a low inflammatory profile in HIV-uninfected South African women

Andile Mtshali, Sinaye Ngcapu, Farzana Osman, Nigel Garrett, Ravesh Singh, Anne Rompalo, Adrian Mindel, Lenine J P Liebenberg

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054458

August 22, 2020

Epidemiology
Time to resolution of genital symptoms for uncomplicated gonorrhoea: a prospective cohort study

Oluseyi Ayinde, Jonathan D C Ross

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054626

August 15, 2020

Health services research
Utilisation of pharmacy-based sexual and reproductive health services: a quantitative retrospective study

Julia Gauly, Helen Atherton, Peter K Kimani, Jonathan Ross

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2020-054488

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