Testing for gonorrhoea should routinely include the pharynx

Affiliations

¹ MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling and NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling Methodology, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.
² Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling and NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling Methodology, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK; Modelling and Economics Unit, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK. Electronic address: p.white@imperial.ac.uk.

Lilith K Whittles et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2018 Jul.

. 2018 Jul;18(7):716-717.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30341-4.

¹ MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling and NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling Methodology, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.
² Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling and NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling Methodology, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK; Modelling and Economics Unit, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK. Electronic address: p.white@imperial.ac.uk.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of interests

LKW, XD, and PJW declare no competing interests. YHG has received consulting fees from GSK for work on gonorrhoea.

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