HIV Incidence Among Men With and Those Without Sexually Transmitted Rectal Infections: Estimates From Matching Against an HIV Case Registry | Zendy

Preeti Pathela | Zendy; Sarah Braunstein | Zendy; Susan Blank | Zendy; Julia A. Schillinger | Zendy

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HIV Incidence Among Men With and Those Without Sexually Transmitted Rectal Infections: Estimates From Matching Against an HIV Case Registry

Author(s) -

Preeti Pathela,

Sarah Braunstein,

Susan Blank,

Julia A. Schillinger

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/cit437

Subject(s) - medicine , men who have sex with men , incidence (geometry) , hazard ratio , chlamydia trachomatis , sexually transmitted disease , cohort , syphilis , chlamydia , confidence interval , gynecology , obstetrics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology , physics , optics

Sexually transmitted bacterial rectal infections are objective markers of HIV risk behavior. Quantifying HIV risk among men who have sex with men (MSM) who have had these infections can inform prevention efforts. We measured HIV risk among MSM who have and those who have not been diagnosed with rectal Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and/or rectal Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC).

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