Journal article
Evaluation of WHO screening algorithm for the presumptive treatment of asymptomatic rectal gonorrhoea and chlamydia infections in at-risk MSM in Kenya.
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Objectives
The WHO recommends that men who have sex with men (MSM) reporting unprotected receptive anal intercourse (RAI) and either multiple partners or a partner with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the past 6 months should be presumptively treated for asymptomatic rectal Neisseria gonorrhoeae(NG) and Chlamydia trachomatis(CT) infections. We evaluated this recommendation in a cohort of ‘high-risk’ MSM in Coastal Kenya.
Methods
We assessed presence of ge...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051078
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Funding
National Institutes of Health
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International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Sexually Transmitted Infections Journal website
- Volume:
- 90
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 94-99
- Publication date:
- 2013-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2013-10-09
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1472-3263
- ISSN:
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1368-4973
- Source identifiers:
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458115
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- English
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- pubs:458115
- Deposit date:
- 2014-05-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Sanders et al
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © 2013 Sanders et al. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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