TY - JOUR T1 - Continuing evidence that COVID-19 has influenced syphilis epidemiology in Rome JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2021-055250 SP - sextrans-2021-055250 AU - Alessandra Latini AU - Francesca Magri AU - Eugenia Giuliani AU - Massimo Giuliani AU - Valentina Garelli AU - Martina Pontone AU - Monica Salvi AU - Christof Stingone AU - Laura Gianserra AU - Fulvia Pimpinelli AU - Anna Rita Buonomini AU - Aldo Morrone AU - Maria Gabriella Donà AU - Mauro Zaccarelli Y1 - 2021/09/20 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/early/2021/09/19/sextrans-2021-055250.abstract N2 - There are conflicting data on how COVID-19 has impacted STI epidemiology worldwide.1 In Rome, we observed a marked decrease in syphilis diagnoses during the first lockdown of spring 2020.2 Extending our previous observations, we compared syphilis diagnoses (primary/secondary/recent) during the whole of 2020 versus those of the previous 3 years (figure 1). While diagnoses by month were homogeneous in the prepandemic period (p for trend=0.40), 2020 showed a peak in June, a sharp and atypical decline … ER -