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Adult gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis prevalence, incidence, treatment and syndromic case reporting in South Africa: Estimates using the Spectrum-STI model, 1990-2017. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
OBJECTIVES:To estimate trends in prevalence and incidence of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in adult men and women in South Africa. METHODS:The Spectrum-STI tool estimated trends in prevalence and incidence of active syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia,
Ranmini S Kularatne, Ronelle Niit, Jane Rowley, Tendesayi Kufa-Chakezha, Remco P H Peters, Melanie M Taylor, Leigh F Johnson, Eline L Korenromp   +7 more
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Disseminated Gonorrhea [PDF]

Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2020
Sexually transmitted infections have risen sharply over the last decade in the United States. The incidence of gonorrhea has risen to 172 reported cases per 100,000 people over the past year.
Janelle Estrada, Shane Sergent, John Ashurst   +2 more
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Adaptive guidelines for the treatment of gonorrhea to increase the effective life span of antibiotics among men who have sex with men in the United States: A mathematical modeling study.

PLoS Medicine, 2020
BackgroundThe rise of gonococcal antimicrobial resistance highlights the need for strategies that extend the clinically useful life span of antibiotics.
Reza Yaesoubi, Ted Cohen, Katherine Hsu, Thomas L Gift, Harrell Chesson, Joshua A Salomon, Yonatan H Grad   +6 more
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Oropharyngeal Gonorrhea in Absence of Urogenital Gonorrhea in Sexual Network of Male and Female Participants, Australia, 2018

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019
We describe a sexual network consisting of 1 nonbinary-gendered participant and 2 male and 4 female participants in Australia, 2018. Six of 7 participants had oropharyngeal gonorrhea in the absence of urogenital gonorrhea. This observation supports a new
Vincent J. Cornelisse, Catriona S. Bradshaw, Eric P.F. Chow, Deborah A. Williamson, Christopher K. Fairley   +4 more
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Gonorrhea and chlamydia prevalence in different anatomical sites among men who have sex with men: a cross-sectional study in Guangzhou, China

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background A high rectal and oropharyngeal sexually transmitted infection (STI) burden has been reported among men who have sex with men (MSM) in many regions, but little data exists on rectal and oropharyngeal STIs among MSM in China.
Li-Gang Yang, Xiao-Hui Zhang, Pei-Zhen Zhao, Zheng-Yu Chen, Wu-Jian Ke, Xu-Qi Ren, Liu-Yuan Wang, Wei-Ying Chen, Joseph D. Tucker   +8 more
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Exploitation of Neisseria meningitidis Group B OMV Vaccines Against N. gonorrhoeae to Inform the Development and Deployment of Effective Gonorrhea Vaccines

Frontiers in Immunology, 2019
Have potential clues to an effective gonorrhea vaccine been lurking in international disease surveillance data for decades? While no clinically effective vaccines against gonorrhea have been developed we present direct and indirect evidence that a ...
Helen Petousis-Harris, Fiona J. Radcliff
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Effectiveness of a Group B Outer Membrane Vesicle Meningococcal Vaccine in Preventing Hospitalization from Gonorrhea in New Zealand: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Vaccines, 2019
Gonorrhea is a major global public health problem with emergence of multiple drug-resistant strains with no effective vaccine. This retrospective cohort study aimed to estimate the effectiveness of the New Zealand meningococcal B vaccine against ...
Janine Paynter, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Jane Morgan, Peter Saxton, Steven Black, Helen Petousis-Harris   +5 more
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Prevalence and factors associated with gonorrhea infection with respect to anatomic distributions among men who have sex with men.

PLoS ONE, 2019
IntroductionGonorrhea (GC) infection caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been steadily increasing in Thailand over the last decade. Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at high risk for gonorrhea infection.Materials and methodsIn this study, we determined
Jiratha Budkaew, Bandit Chumworathayi, Chamsai Pientong, Tipaya Ekalaksananan   +3 more
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Potential public health impacts of gonorrhea vaccination programmes under declining incidences: A modeling study. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine
BackgroundGonorrhea is the second most common sexually transmitted disease notified in Singapore in 2023. Evidence suggests that the 4CMenB vaccine designed to protect against Neisseria meningitidis infection may offer partial cross-protection against ...
Lin Geng, Lilith K Whittles, Borame L Dickens, Martin T W Chio, Yihao Chen, Rayner Kay Jin Tan, Azra Ghani, Jue Tao Lim   +7 more
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Association of Group B Meningococcal Vaccine Receipt With Reduced Gonorrhea Incidence Among University Students

JAMA Network Open, 2023
This case-control study examines reported cases of gonorrhea among recipients of meningococcal group B vaccine at 2 universities in Oregon.
S. Robison, R. Leman
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