Do you recommend multisite testing for gonorrhea and chlamydia as a default screening strategy in sexually active women, regardless of reported sexual exposures?
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Do you recommend routine multisite testing for gonorrhea and chlamydia in sexually active women regardless of reported sexual exposures?
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Infectious Disease · University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD
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First, the answers arguably may be different for gonorrhea and chlamydial infection. True pharyngeal chlamydia is relatively uncommon; a positive nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) sometimes does not mean viable C. trachomatis; positive test results have not been associated with symptoms or sign...
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Infectious Disease · UMass Memorial Medical Center
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Yes
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