2020
Population-level Benefits of Extragenital Gonorrhea Screening Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: An Exploratory Modeling Analysis.
Earnest R, Rönn M, Bellerose M, Gift T, Berruti A, Hsu K, Testa C, Zhu L, Malyuta Y, Menzies N, Salomon J. Population-level Benefits of Extragenital Gonorrhea Screening Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: An Exploratory Modeling Analysis. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2020, 47: 484-490. PMID: 32355108, PMCID: PMC7903327, DOI: 10.1097/olq.0000000000001189.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExtragenital screeningMultisite infectionExtragenital sitesRectal screeningSite-specific prevalenceGonorrhea ScreeningPharyngeal sitesGonorrhea infectionExtragenital infectionsGonorrhea prevalencePopulation-level benefitsRectal sitesImproved screeningDisease controlInfectionPrevalenceIncidenceMenHigh rateSexScreeningRace groupsScreening levelsGonorrheaClinic
2019
The Potential Population-Level Impact of Different Gonorrhea Screening Strategies in Baltimore and San Francisco: An Exploratory Mathematical Modeling Analysis
Rönn M, Testa C, Tuite A, Chesson H, Gift T, Schumacher C, Williford S, Zhu L, Bellerose M, Earnest R, Malyuta Y, Hsu K, Salomon J, Menzies N. The Potential Population-Level Impact of Different Gonorrhea Screening Strategies in Baltimore and San Francisco: An Exploratory Mathematical Modeling Analysis. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2019, 47: 143-150. PMID: 31842089, PMCID: PMC7012354, DOI: 10.1097/olq.0000000000001108.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAnnual screeningMost infectionsHigh-burden areasAdditional screening testFocused intervention strategiesCompartmental transmission modelRace/ethnicityPotential population-level impactCare cascadeBurden areasAcquisition riskScreen populationsScreening testPopulation-level impactInfectionSan FranciscoSurveillance dataPrevalence distributionScreening strategyInterventionIntervention strategiesSuch interventionsGonorrheaTime trendsMathematical modeling analysis