Changing from Clinician-Collected to Self-Collected Throat Swabs for Oropharyngeal Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Screening among Men Who Have Sex with Men-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Changing from Clinician-Collected to Self-Collected Throat Swabs for Oropharyngeal Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Screening among Men Who Have Sex with Men

Published:2020-08-24 Issue:9 Volume:58 Page:
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Chow Eric P. F.¹²³^ORCID,Bradshaw Catriona S.¹²,Williamson Deborah A.⁴^ORCID,Hall Shauna¹,Chen Marcus Y.¹²,Phillips Tiffany R.¹²^ORCID,Fortune Ria¹,Maddaford Kate¹,Fairley Christopher K.¹²

Affiliation:

1. Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2. Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

3. Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

4. Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led many clinics to move from clinician-collected to self-collected oropharyngeal swabs for the detection of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Before this change, however, self-collection was used primarily for genital and anorectal infections, with only limited studies on the performance of self-collection of oropharyngeal swabs for oropharyngeal STI detection. The Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC) changed from clinician-collected to self-collected oropharyngeal swabs for oropharyngeal gonorrhea and chlamydia screening on 16 March 2020 in order to reduce health care worker risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Funder

Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JCM.01215-20

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