Correspondence on 'Sexually transmitted infections during the first 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic in Finland by Kuitunen et al

Social restrictions did not reduce Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) or Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) detections in Finland during the first 6 months of the pandemic.1 We explored the incidences of laboratory-confirmed CT, NG and Treponema pallidum (TP) findings from March 2020 to February 2022. Incidence rate ratio (IRR) was used in comparisons. We included a total of 103 292 CT, 3384 NG and 1407 TP detections (). There was minimal monthly variation in CT incidence (figure 1). During the second pandemic year, NG detections were higher in both groups (IRR 1.1, CI 1.0 to 1.3; IRR 1.2, CI 1.1 to 1.4) especially in the late 2021 (figure 1). TP detections remained practically unchanged in the first pandemic year (IRR 0.9, CI 0.8 to 1.1) but were lower in the second year (IRR 0.8, CI 0.7 to 0.9; figure 1). Figure 1Monthly incidence of...

Source: Sexually Transmitted Infections - August 22, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Kuitunen, I., Ponkilainen, V., Mattila, V. M., Uimonen, M. M. Tags: COVID-19 PostScript Source Type: research