Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Electronic address: jocelyn.srigley@cw.bc.ca.
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. Electronic address: audra.iness@bcm.edu.
Current guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends empiric treatment for persons exposed to sexually transmitted infections, including Neisseria gonorrhoeae ( NG ). As ...
We conducted a descriptive analysis of pharyngeal NG infection in men who have sex with women (MSW) and women seeking care at a sexual health clinic in Seattle, WA, from February 2017 to July 2021 bec...
Among 352 NG contacts tested for urogenital or pharyngeal infection, 34% were positive for NG at ≥1 anatomic site (27% for MSW and 40% for women). Among 161 NG contacts tested at the pharynx, 30% (n =...
Pharyngeal NG is relatively common among MSW and women who have been exposed to NG, and likely represents an underdiagnosed reservoir of NG infection. If empiric treatment is abandoned in favor of tes...
Gonorrhea and chlamydia infections remain a significant public health concern with most cases occurring in adults younger than 25 years old. Diagnosis relies on nucleic acid amplification testing as t...
Documented cases of monkeypox virus outside of Africa are rare, but as of August 22, 2022, the CDC was tracking 18,101 cases in the United States. Monkeypox rash can easily mimic other sexually transm...
To understand the epidemiological trend of gonorrhea in China from 2004 to 2021, predict the prevalence of the disease, and provide basic theory and data support for monitoring and managing gonorrhea....
We explored the impact of maternal sociodemographic parameters on the prevalence of chlamydial and gonorrheal infection in pregnancy in a large United States population of live births....
Retrospective analysis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Natality Live Birth database (2016-2019). We compared pregnancies complicated by maternal infection with either gonorrhea or ch...
Of the 15,341,868 included live births, 45,639 (0.30%) were from patients who had gonorrheal infection, and 282,065 (1.84%) were from patients who had chlamydial infection during pregnancy. Concurrent...
Several sociodemographic factors including young maternal age, low educational attainment, Medicaid insurance, and non-Hispanic Black race/ethnicity, are associated with a marked increase in the risk ...
Tongue kissing is a poorly studied risk factor for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We undertook the first systematic review to assess whether kissing is a risk factor for gonorrhea or chlamydi...
Online databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, Cochrane) and reference lists were searched until September 30, 2022. The eligibility criteria for studies included: any peer-reviewed study ...
Of 8248 studies screened, 6 were eligible for review. All were conducted among men who have sex with men in Australia, including 3 prospective cohort studies, 2 cross-sectional studies, and 1 age-matc...
This systematic review summarized the existing evidence that suggests that tongue kissing may be a risk factor for oropharyngeal gonorrhea but not chlamydia. Reinforcing the message that oropharyngeal...
We extend recent work estimating incidence and prevalence of gonococcal infections among men and women aged 15 to 39 years in the United States in 2018 by applying the same modeling framework to estim...
The model is informed by cases from the Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, data from the National Survey of Family Growth, and data on other factors known to impact gonococcal incidenc...
There were 1,603,473 (1,467,801-1,767,779) incident cases of gonorrhea estimated in 2019. Per-capita incidence increased 32%, from 1101 (1002-1221) to 1456 (1333-1605) infections per 100,000 persons. ...
The burden of gonorrhea has increased among men and women aged 15 to 39 years since 2013. An increasing proportion of incident infections are among men. Additional biomedical and behavioral interventi...
Observational studies demonstrated 30% to 40% effectiveness of outer-membrane vesicle (OMV) meningococcal serogroup B vaccines against gonorrhea. To explore whether healthy vaccinee bias influenced su...
Extragenital testing (rectal and oropharyngeal) of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) increases the detection of CT/NG infections, compared with genital testing alone. The Cente...
Prospective computer-assisted telephonic interviews were conducted with 873 clinics between June 2022 and September 2022. The computer-assisted telephonic interview followed a semistructured questionn...
Of the 873 clinics, CT/NG testing was offered in 751 clinics (86.0%), and extragenital testing was offered in only 432 clinics (57.5%). Most clinics (74.5%) with extragenital testing do not offer test...
Despite evidence-based recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the availability of extragenital CT/NG testing is moderate. Patients seeking extragenital testing may encoun...
Our study assessed adolescents' and emerging adults' (ages 14-24 years) preferences for opt-out gonorrhea and chlamydia screening compared with risk-based screening. Most participants (93%) preferred ...
