Sexually Transmitted Enteric Infections in Men Who Have Sex With Men Living With HIV Over 8 Years of Follow-up
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Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research
Lues Maligna in an Immunocompetent Patient
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Etiologies of Proctitis at a Sexual Health Clinic in Seattle, Washington From 2011 to 2021
We analyzed microbiologic etiologies of proctitis among patients seen in an urban sexual health clinic during 2011 to 2021. Among 759 cases, 179 (24%) tested positive for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, 171 (23%) for Chlamydia trachomatis, 21 (3%) for herpes simplex virus, 30 (4%) for syphilis, and 73 (10%) for multiple pathogens; no pathogen was identified in 425 (56%). (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Notes Source Type: research
Dory Flop Sign in Monkeypox: 2 Cases
We describe 2 monkeypox cases in human immunodeficiency virus–positive men who have sex with men with undetectable viral loads. Both patients presented with the dory flop sign. (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Notes Source Type: research
Report: A Pox Presenting Without Pox
A man with virally suppressed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) presented with an erythematous, morbilliform rash without pustules in the setting of fever, fatigue, and myalgias after recent travel to Mexico and Puerto Rico. He was diagnosed with nonvariola orthopoxvirus (monkeypox) infection. This case report highlights an atypical presentation in the 2022 outbreak. (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Case Report Source Type: research
Changes in Testing and Diagnoses of Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV During the COVID-19 Pandemic
We evaluated changes in rates of testing and diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections during the 2017–2020 period at Kaiser Permanente Southern California. During the COVID-19 pandemic period, we observed profound reductions in testing and fewer diagnoses of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and HIV compared with prepandemic periods, but syphilis diagnoses rates increased by 32%. (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Note Source Type: research
Changes in Sexual Behavior Over the COVID-19 Pandemic Among a Community-Based Cohort of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Columbus, Ohio
Background
The purpose was to assess COVID-19 beliefs and attitudes and examine COVID-19–related changes in sexual behavior of men who have sex with men during 3 time periods: April–July 2020 (T1), August–December 2020 (T2), January–May 2021 (T3).
Methods
Data were analyzed from 157 men who have sex with men in Ohio recruited to participate in a longitudinal multisite network study of syphilis epidemiology in 3 US cities: Columbus, Ohio; Baltimore, Maryland; and Chicago, Illinois. In April 2020, a COVID-19 module was appended to existing baseline and follow-up surveys to assess beliefs, attitudes, and ch...
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Original Study Source Type: research
Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing Among Unstably Housed, Sexually Active Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the United States, 2018–2019
Unstably housed sexually active people with human immunodeficiency virus experience both a high incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and barriers to annual STI screening recommended by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. We used Medical Monitoring Project data to describe STI testing among unstably housed people with human immunodeficiency virus by attendance at Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program–funded facilities. (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Note Source Type: research
Gonococcal Infection and Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts
We present 2 cases of adolescents with ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection due to N. gonorrhoeae, requiring shunt externalization. (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Case Report Source Type: research
Disseminated Gonococcal Infections in Manitoba, Canada: 2013 to 2020
Conclusions
Molecular surveillance of gonorrhea and, in particular, gonococcal strains resulting in DGI is imperative to monitor clonal transmission within populations. These data can be used to alert public health of emerging issues and support public health interventions. (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Original Studies Source Type: research
Anal and Oral Sex Behaviors Among Young Black Men Who Have Vaginal Sex: Evidence of the Need for Extragenital Testing for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea
Conclusions
Unprotected oral sex with female partners was common. The high rate of genital infection among men who used condoms consistently for vaginal sex suggests that oral infections could be serving as a reservoir of genital infection. Testing at all sites of exposure for youth who engage in heterosexual sex is merited. (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Original Studies Source Type: research
County-Level Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Rates by Social Vulnerability, United States, 2014–2018
We examined mean chlamydia and gonorrhea case rates from 2014 to 2018 by categorizing US counties by social vulnerability. Overall, these rates were approximately 1.0 to 2.4 times higher in high vulnerability counties than low vulnerability counties. Percentage change in case rates from low to high social vulnerability counties varied by sex, geographic region, and urbanicity. (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Note Source Type: research
An Evaluation of Digital Partner Notification Tool Engagement and Impact for Patients Diagnosed With Gonorrhea and Syphilis
Conclusion
Digital PN tool engagement increased when more partners needed to be informed of their risk of infection. Future work is planned to improve the use of and engagement with dPNt to alert and test more partners or their risk and improve public health. (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: The Real World of STD Prevention Source Type: research
Comparing Sexual Network Mean Active Degree Measurement Metrics Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
Conclusions
The retrospective method underestimates mean degree for MSM in surveys with truncated partnership data, especially for casual partnerships. The current method is less prone to bias from partner truncation when the target population has high rate of partners per year. (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Original Studies Source Type: research
The Role of HIV Partner Services in the Modern Biomedical HIV Prevention Era: A Network Modeling Study
Conclusions
Achieving optimal HIV prevention with partner services depends on pairing improvements in index patient and partner identification with maximal delivery of HIV screening, ART, and PrEP to partners if indicated. Improving the identification steps without improvement to antiretroviral service delivery steps, or vice versa, is projected to result in negligible population HIV prevention benefit. (Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Original Studies Source Type: research
