Evaluation of WHO screening algorithm for the presumptive treatment of asymptomatic rectal gonorrhoea and chlamydia infections in at-risk MSM in Kenya

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 94-99

  Sanders, Eduard J ^a,b   Wahome, Elizabeth ^a   Okuku, Haile Selassie ^a   Thiong'O, Alexander N ^a   Smith, Adrian D ^c   Duncan, Sarah ^d   Mwambi, John ^a   Shafi, Juma ^e,f   McClelland, R Scott ^e,f   Graham, Susan M ^a,e,f  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFIXIME; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFECTION PREVENTION; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM GONORRHEA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNPROTECTED SEX; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; MEN; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEA; PUBLIC HEALTH; TREATMENT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GONORRHEA; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL PARTNERS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84895557314     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051078     Document Type: Article

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