Increased Syphilis Testing of Men Who Have Sex With Men: Greater Detection of Asymptomatic Early Syphilis and Relative Reduction in Secondary Syphilis
Author(s) -
Eric P. F. Chow,
Denton Callander,
Christopher K. Fairley,
Lei Zhang,
Basil Donovan,
Rebecca Guy,
David A. Lewis,
Margaret Hellard,
Phillip Read,
Alison Ward,
Marcus Y. Chen,
John Kaldor,
Andrew E. Grulich,
Lewis Marshall,
Catherine O’Connor,
David P. Wilson,
Bridget Dickson,
Hammad Ali,
Lucy Waters Smith,
Eva Jackson,
Darren Russell,
Emanuel Vhalkis,
Manoji Gunathilake,
Alison Nikitas,
Maree O’Sullivan,
Debbie Allen,
Nathan Ryder,
Katherine Brown,
David Smith,
Y. Paramsothy,
Cheryn Palmer,
Stephen Davies,
Anna McNulty,
A. Me,
Angela Parker
Publication year - 2017
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/cix326
Subject(s) - syphilis , medicine , men who have sex with men , asymptomatic , latent syphilis , sexually transmitted disease , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology , demography , sociology
Syphilis rates have increased markedly among men who have sex with men (MSM) internationally. We examined trends in syphilis testing and detection of early syphilis among MSM in Australia.
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