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ArticleSexually transmitted diseases2008

Prevalence of rectal Trichomonas vaginalis and Mycoplasma genitalium in male patients at the San Francisco STD clinic, 2005-2006.

Suzanna C Francis, Charlotte K Kent, Jeffrey D Klausner, Leah Rauch, Robert Kohn, Andrew Hardick, Charlotte A Gaydos

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In one paragraph

Article in Sexually transmitted diseases, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines, 2021.MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports · 2021
    Guideline
  2. Prevalence ofSexually transmitted infections · 2018
    Pooled it
  3. Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2015.MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports · 2015
    Guideline
  4. Trial
  5. Trends in prevalence ofSexually transmitted infections · 2026
    Article
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  9. Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025
    Article
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  11. Prevalence ofSexually transmitted infections · 2024
    Article
  12. Trichomoniasis.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2023
    Review
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  18. Prevalence ofJournal of medical microbiology · 2021
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Suzanna C FrancisSan Francisco Department of Public Health, STD Prevention and Control, San Francisco, California, USA. Suzanna.Francis@lshtm.ac.uk
Charlotte K Kent
Jeffrey D Klausner
Leah Rauch
Robert Kohn
Andrew Hardick
Charlotte A Gaydos

Funding

Medical Research Council G1002369
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultAnimalsCross-Sectional StudiesHomosexuality, MaleHumansMaleMycoplasma genitaliumPilot ProjectsPolymerase Chain ReactionPrevalenceProctitisRectumSan FranciscoSensitivity and SpecificityTime FactorsTrichomonas vaginalis

Identifiers

PMID18607317
PMCPMC3776945

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