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Blog category: Journal club

Journal Club: Do text message reminders help youth and young adults with Chlamydia trachomatis to improve retesting and to decrease reinfection rates?

Feb 4, 2016 by Katie Mitchell, Fellow, Adolescent Medicine, BC Children’s Hospital

Article reviewed

Kampman CJG, Koedijk FDH, Driessen-Hulshof HCM, et al. Retesting young STI clinic visitors with urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in the Netherlands; response to a text message reminder and...

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Journal Club: Risk factors and clinical predictors of rectal lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) infection

Mar 13, 2015 by Shazia Masud, PGY-3 Medical Microbiology, UBC

Articles reviewed

  1. N. Macdonald, A.K. Sullivan, P. French, J.A. White, G. Dean, A. Smith, A.J. Winter, S. Alexander, C. Ison and H. Ward. Risk factors for rectal lymphogranuloma venereum in gay men: results of a...

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Journal Club: Meta-analysis of Azithromycin versus Doxycycline for genital chlamydia infection

Oct 29, 2014 by Michael Payne, MD, Medical Microbiology Resident

Article reviewed

F. Y. S. Kong, S. N. Tabrizi, M. Law, L. A. Vodstrcil, M. Chen, C. K. Fairley, R. Guy, C. Bradshaw, and J. S. Hocking. Azithromycin Versus Doxycycline for the Treatment of Genital Chlamydia Infection: A...

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Journal Club: The known unknowns of HPV

Sep 17, 2014 by Leah Scott, PGY-2 Dermatology, UBC

Article reviewed

Patti E. Gravitt. The Known Unknowns of HPV.  J Clin Invest. 2011;121(12):4593-4599. doi:10.1172/JCI57149.

Purpose of the study

The discovery that certain high-risk strains of human...

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Journal Club: Anoscopy screening of HIV+ MSM: longitudinal results from a pilot study

Apr 9, 2014 by Patrick Wong, MD, Infectious Diseases Fellow

Article reviewed

Dalla Pria A, Alfa-Wali M, Fox P, Holmes P, Weir J, Francis N, et al. High-resolution anoscopy screening of HIV positive MSM: longitudinal results from a pilot study. Aids. 2014;28:861-7

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