Deiss, RG;
Leon, SR;
Konda, KA;
Brown, B;
Segura, ER;
Galea, JT;
Caceres, CF;
(2013)
Characterizing the syphilis epidemic among men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru to identify new treatment and control strategies.
BMC Infectious Diseases
, 13
, Article 426. 10.1186/1471-2334-13-426.
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Abstract
Syphilis is an important sexually transmitted infection (STI) with serious public health consequences. Among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Lima, the prevalence and incidence are extraordinarily high. Current syndromic approaches, however, fail to identify asymptomatic cases, and in settings where large proportions of individuals test positive again after treatment, it is frequently difficult to distinguish treatment failure from re-infection. Thus, new approaches are needed to improve treatment strategies and public health control efforts.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Characterizing the syphilis epidemic among men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru to identify new treatment and control strategies |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2334-13-426 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-426 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 Deiss et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMCID: PMC3846360 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1420892 |
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