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Orogenital and anal infection by Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, ...
Minetti, C; Rocha, M; Duque, LM; Meireles, P; Correia, C; Cordeiro, D; João, I; Manita, C; Soeiro, S; Santos, JA; Matos, R; Almeida, C; Martins, HC"Background Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), but more data on extragenital carriage are needed. Aim We assessed the genital and extragenital prevalence of bacterial and other STIs in MSM in a Lisbon sexual health clinic. Methods We screened oral, anal, and urine samples of MSM visiting the GAT-CheckpointLX clinic June 2017-December 2021 for Chlamydia tracho...
Ongoing monkeypox virus outbreak, Portugal, 29 April to 23 May 2022
Duque, M.P.; Ribeiro, S.; Martins, J.V.; Casaca, P.; Leite, P. P.; Tavares, M.; Mansinho, K.; Duque, L.M.; Fernandes, C.; Cordeiro, R.; Borrego, M.J.Up to 27 May 2022, Portugal has detected 96 confirmed cases of monkeypox. We describe 27 confirmed cases (median age: 33 years (range: 22–51); all males), with an earliest symptom onset date of 29 April. Almost all cases (n = 25) live in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley health region. Most cases were neither part of identified transmission chains, nor linked to travel or had contact with symptomatic persons or with ...