Testing for gonorrhoea should routinely include the pharynx.
Testing for gonorrhoea should routinely include the pharynx.
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淋病检查应常规包括咽部检查。
DOI:
10.1016/s1473-3099(18)30341-4
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发表时间:
2018
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White,PeterJ
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作者:
Whittles,LilithK;Didelot,Xavier;Grad,YonatanH;White,PeterJ
The WHO public health approach of HIV care requires expanded HIV testing through community-based services and integration of HIV and viral hepatitis services in chronic disease care in settings where rates of co-infection are high. 1 Innovative strategies for HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing are thus becoming necessary to expand both their prevention and treatment services. 2 We pioneered the use of mobile units for mass HIV testing throughout Cameroon. 3 The development of a new multiplex rapid diagnostic test (RDT) for simultaneous detection of HIV, and HCV-specific antibodies, and HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) 4 prompted us to assess its usefulness in mobile units for mass HIV, HBV, and HCV screening. From February to April, 2018, 1206 volunteers (665 men, 541 women; mean age 31· 9 years [range 18–91]) were enrolled after informed consent during free screening campaigns in health districts in urban and rural areas in Cameroon. Venous blood samples were submitted for parallel screening in a mobile unit on whole blood by multiplex combination HIV/HCV/HBsAg (Triplex, Biosynex, Strasbourg, France, with analytical performances previously validated4), and on serum in a reference laboratory in Yaounde by CE IVD-labelled ELISAs for HIV, HBsAg, and HCV (HUMAN Diagnostics, Wiesbaden, Germany). Volunteers were screened and their results given back to them. 104 (9%) volunteers were positive for HBsAg, 25 (2%), for HIV and 27 (2%) for HCV. All samples positive and negative by multiplex RDT were further confirmed by reference HIV, HBV, and HCV ELISAs. One volunteer was positive for both HIV and HBsAg. All volunteers who were seropositive by multiplex RDT were referred to counselling and treatment centres. There was no loss to follow-up in the transition to reference health-care centres, demonstrating immediate continuum of care. One of 12 adults screened during mobile screening campaigns benefited from simultaneous, rapid, detection of HIV, HBV, and HCV. The mobile unit approach for mass HIV, HBV, and HCV testing by multiplex RDT may strengthen the prevention and care strategies in place. Multiplex RDT has more advantages than the monospecific RDTs used independently, by maximising available resources, and simultaneously providing rapid results for several viral infections with one single drop of blood and only one test device. In sub-Saharan Africa, the simultaneous use of low cost multiplex HIV, HBV, and HCV RDT in combination with mobile units may clearly improve the cascade of screening, prevention strategies, and linkage-to-care with reduced cost.