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ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2018

Testing for gonorrhoea should routinely include the pharynx.

Lilith K Whittles, Xavier Didelot, Yonatan H Grad, Peter J White

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Article in The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Priorities and Progress in Diagnostic Research by the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
    Review
  4. Simultaneous Evaluation of Diagnostic Assays for Pharyngeal and Rectal Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis Using a Master Protocol.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020
    Article
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  6. The frontiers of addressing antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine · 2020
    Review
  7. Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lilith K WhittlesMRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling and NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling Methodology, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.
Xavier DidelotMRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling and NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling Methodology, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK.
Yonatan H GradDepartment 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.
Peter J WhiteMRC 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.

Funding

Genomics approaches to elucidating pathways to antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeaeR01AI132606 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI Yonatan H Grad · 2017 to 2026
$3.8M
Medical Research Council MR/K010174/1Medical Research Council MR/R015600/1NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI132606
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Disease Transmission, InfectiousHomosexuality, MaleLipAdultGonorrheaHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeisseria gonorrhoeaePharynx

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PMID29976520
PMCPMC7349805

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