It is vital to treat partners of patients with curable STIs as quickly as possible. But the effectiveness of interventions to achieve this proves hard to measure – and the case for increasing resources correspondingly difficult to make. The inadequacy of the resources available to existing partner services has led some investigators in the US […]
Category: Reinfection
Could Chlamydia treatment failure be the result of genital contamination from persistent gut infection
The persistence of Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) infection in treated patients is generally attributed either to re-infection or poor treatment adherence. To some, however, the evidence has suggested the operation of an additional factor – such as treatment failure (STIs/ Goetz & Bruisten; STIs/ Pitt & Ison; STIs/ Horner). A recent study (Rank & Yeruva (R&Y)) […]
Call for Papers: Reinfection and Retesting
We invite submissions for a special issue to be published in 2012 which will address the topics of Reinfection and Re-testing for STis and HIV. The Guest Editors for this important publication will be Dr Matthew Golden (Seattle, USA) and Dr Katy Turner (Bristol, UK). In this issue we aim to bring together a wide […]