‘Bish bash bosh’: the experiences of men who have sex with men providing self-taken oropharyngeal, rectal, meatal and first-catch urine specimens, and pooling genital and extragenital specimens for <i>Neisseria gonorrhoeae</i> and <i>Chlamydia tracho
These data provide insight into the experiences of MSM providing self-taken samples and pooling them for gonorrhoea and chlamydia testing. Interestingly, MSM preferred self-taken meatal swabs to urine and would accept a slight reduction in diagnostic sensitivity with this specimen.
Authors
- Harriet Wallace
- Daniel Richardson
- Janet Wilson
Institutions
- Brighton and Sussex Medical School (GB)
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
- University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Published
- 2026-01-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2025-056742
- Primary Topic
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00