Aetiological molecular identification of sexually transmitted infections that cause urethral discharge syndrome and genital ulcer disease in Brazilian men: a nationwide study.
Maria Luíza BazzoHanalydia de Melo MachadoJessica Motta MartinsMarcos André SchörnerKetlyn BussFernando Hartmann BarazzettiPamela Cristina GasparAlisson BigolinAdele BenzakenSimone Veloso Faria de CarvalhoLidiane da Fonseca AndradeWilliam Antunes FerreiraFrançois FigueiroaRafael Mialski FontanaMiralba Freire de Carvalho Ribeiro da SilvaRoberto José Carvalho SilvaLuiz Fernando Aires JuniorLis Aparecida de Souza NevesAngelica Espinosa MirandaBrazilian-Gasp NetworkPublished in: Sexually transmitted infections (2024)
This study provided the acquisition of unprecedented data on the aetiology of UDS and GUD in Brazil, demonstrated the presence of a variety of pathogens in both sample types and reaffirmed the aetiologies known to be most prevalent globally.