TY - JOUR T1 - Epidemiological trends in notified syphilis diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2021-055240 SP - sextrans-2021-055240 AU - Célia Márcia Fernandes Maia AU - Nelson Pereira Marques AU - Verônica Oliveira Dias AU - Daniella R. Barbosa Martelli AU - Eduardo Araújo Oliveira AU - Hercílio Martelli-Júnior Y1 - 2021/08/23 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/23/sextrans-2021-055240.abstract N2 - How the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the incidence of syphilis remains unclear.1–4 We extracted data from the Brazilian Unified Health System public disease notification database to compare the mean number of syphilis cases reported from March to December 2017–2019 with those reported the same period of 2020. In all Brazilian macroregions, the incidence rates of syphilis per million population increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching … ER -