The March 2022 edition of STI BMJ- Sexually Transmitted Infections is available at: https://sti.bmj.com/content/98/2
Original Research
- Original research: Tracking missed opportunities for an early HIV diagnosis in a population of people living with HIV with known time of infection (19 February, 2021)
Dimitrios Basoulis, Evangelia Georgia Kostaki, Dimitrios Paraskevis, Angelos Hatzakis, Mina Psichogiou
- Original research: Decrease in incidence of sexually transmitted infections symptoms in men who have sex with men enrolled in a quarterly HIV prevention and care programme in West Africa (CohMSM ANRS 12324—Expertise France) (22 March, 2021)
Issifou Yaya, Fodié Diallo, Malan Jean-Baptiste Kouamé, Mawuényégan Kouamivi Agboyibor, Issa Traoré, Alou Coulibaly, Kader Maiga, Marion Mora, Pamela Palvadeau, Elias Ter Tiero Dah, Ephrem Mensah, Camille Anoma, Bintou Dembélé Keita, Bruno Spire, Christian Laurent
- Original research: Clinical outcomes of syphilis in HIV-negative and HIV-positive MSM: occurrence of repeat syphilis episodes and non-treponemal serology responses (19 February, 2021)
Silvia Achia Nieuwenburg, Ricardo Jamie Sprenger, Maarten Franciscus Schim van der Loeff, Henry John Christiaan de Vries
- Original research: Sexual behaviours associated with incident high-risk anal human papillomavirus among gay and bisexual men (16 March, 2021)
Ian K J Wong, Isobel Mary Poynten, Alyssa Cornall, David J Templeton, Monica Molano, Suzanne M Garland, Christopher K Fairley, Carmella Law, Richard J Hillman, Mark N Polizzotto, Andrew E Grulich, Fengyi Jin
- Original research: Going beyond ‘regular and casual’: development of a classification of sexual partner types to enhance partner notification for STIs (29 April, 2021)
Claudia S Estcourt, Paul Flowers, Jackie A Cassell, Maria Pothoulaki, Gabriele Vojt, Fiona Mapp, Melvina Woode-Owusu, Nicola Low, John Saunders, Merle Symonds, Alison Howarth, Sonali Wayal, Rak Nandwani, Susie Brice, Alex Comer, Anne M Johnson, Catherine H Mercer
- Original research:
Hannah S Shilling, Suzanne M Garland, Anna-Maria Costa, Alex Marceglia, Katherine Fethers, Jennifer Danielewski, Gerald Murray, Catriona Bradshaw, Lenka Vodstrcil, Jane S Hocking, John Kaldor, Rebecca Guy, Dorothy A Machalek
Short Reports
- Short report:
Confirmatory testing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a sexual health clinic: implications for epidemiology and treatment policy (25 February, 2021)
Myrte Tielemans, Mireille van Westreenen, Corné Klaassen, Hannelore M Götz
- Short report: High levels of undiagnosed rectal STIs suggest that screening remains inadequate among Black gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (31 March, 2021) FREE
Ryan J Watson, Charlene Collibee, Jessica L Maksut, Valerie A Earnshaw, Katherine Rucinski, Lisa Eaton
- Short report: Ethnic inequalities in mental health and socioeconomic status among older women living with HIV: results from the PRIME Study (29 March, 2021)
Danielle Solomon, Shema Tariq, Jon Alldis, Fiona Burns, Richard Gilson, Caroline Sabin, Lorraine Sherr, Fiona Pettit, Rageshri Dhairyawan
- Short report: Evidence of HIV pre-exposure or post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP/PEP) among blood donors: a pilot study, England June 2018 to July 2019 (29 March, 2021)
Heli Harvala, Claire Reynolds, Samreen Ijaz, Vicki Maddox, Sujan Dilly Penchala, Alieu Amara, Laura Else, Susan Brailsford, Saye Khoo
- Short report: Factors associated with testing positive for syphilis among MSM who present as sexual contacts of syphilis from a clinic-based population (19 April, 2021) Daniel Richardson, Alice Pickering, Kayleigh Nichols, Zoe Buss, Daniel Trotman, Colin Fitzpatrick, Deborah Williams
- Short report:
Culture obtained from urethral swab of asymptomatic men who screen positive for Neisseria gonorrhoeae by urine nucleic acid amplification testing (1 February, 2021) Ayoma Ratnappuli, Melanie Bissessor, Shehara Arumugam, Deborah A Williamson, Eric P F Chow, Christopher K Fairley, Jason J Ong, Vesna De Petra, Marcus Y Chen
Review
- HIV testing in termination of pregnancy and colposcopy services: a scoping review (20 September, 2021)
Paraskevas Filippidis, Katyuska Francini, Martine Jacot-Guillarmod, Patrice Mathevet, Loïc Lhopitallier, Matthias Cavassini, Katharine E.A. Darling
Research Letters
- STIs during the first and second wave of COVID-19 in Denmark (18 March, 2021) FREE
Ida M Heerfordt
- Increased clinician confidence and uptake of event-based PrEP by men who have sex with men during the COVID-19 pandemic (19 February, 2021) FREE
Daniel Richardson, Emma Buck, Andrew Parkhouse, Deborah Williams
- Clustering HIV infections among MSM fuelled by drug and internet (8 September, 2021)
Xiangyu Yan, Hanli Xu, Yongjie Li, Hexuan Su, Bo Zhang, Zhongwei Jia
- SARS-CoV-2 vaccination of people living with human T leukaemia virus type 1 (26 May, 2021) FREE
Abelardo Araujo, Fabiola Martin
- Decrease in the incidence of chlamydia infection during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea (4 June, 2021) FREE
Seokyoung Chang, Sukhyun Ryu, Dasom Kim, Byung Chul Chun
Correspondence
- Correspondence: Prolonged neuropsychiatric symptoms may delay the diagnosis of parkinsonism secondary to neurosyphilis (9 December, 2021)
Kundian Guo, Chunxia Jiang, Zhen Hong, Zaiquan Dong
- Correspondence: Choice of antibiotics for prophylaxis of bacterial STIs among individuals currently self-sourcing (6 December, 2021)
Manik Kohli, David Reid, Caisey V Pulford, Alison Howarth, Jack Brown, Hamish Mohammed, Gwenda Hughes, Catherine H Mercer, John Saunders
Perspectives
- Research news in clinical context (17 February, 2022) FREE
Danielle Solomon, Rayner Tan, Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein, Weiming Tang, Monica Desai