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Extragenital Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing Among Louisiana Parish Health Units, 2016–2019
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5 01 2023
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Source: Sex Transm Dis. 50(5):274-279
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Alternative Title:Sex Transm Dis
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Description:Background:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that men who have sex with men (MSM) get tested annually for urethral and rectal chlamydia (CT) and gonorrhea (NG), and pharyngeal NG. There are no national recommendations to screen women and heterosexual men at extragenital sites. We assessed extragenital CT/NG screening among men and women at Louisiana’s Parish Health Units (PHU).
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The Louisiana STD/HIV/Hepatitis Program piloted extragenital screening at four PHUs in February 2016 and expanded to eleven PHUs in 2017. Sexual histories were used to identify gender of sex partners and exposed sites. Due to billing restrictions, up to two anatomical sites were tested for CT/NG.
Results:
From February 2016-June 2019, 70,895 urogenital and extragenital specimens (56,086 urogenital, 13,797 pharyngeal and 1,012 rectal) were collected from 56,086 patients. Pharyngeal CT positivity was 160/7,868 (2.0%) among women, 54/4,838 (1.1%) among MSW (men who have sex with women) and 33/1,091 (3.0%) among MSM. Rectal CT positivity was 51/439 (11.6%) among women and 95/573 (16.6%) among MSM. Pharyngeal NG positivity was 299/7,868 (3.8%) among women, 222/4,838 (4.6%) among MSW and 97/1,091 (8.9%) among MSM. Rectal NG positivity was 20/439 (4.6%) among women and 134/573 (23.4%) among MSM.
Conclusions:
Many CT/NG infections would have been missed with urogenital-only screening. MSM had much higher extragenital infection rates than women and MSW.
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Pubmed ID:36630331
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC10190115
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Volume:50
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