Contribution of general practitioners and sexual health centres to sexually transmitted infection consultations in five Dutch regions using laboratory data of Chlamydia trachomatis testing

Int J STD AIDS. 2020 May;31(6):517-525. doi: 10.1177/0956462420905275. Epub 2020 Mar 4.

Ial Slurink¹, K Groen², H M Gotz^{1

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4}, A Meima³, M M Kroone⁵, A A Hogewoning⁵, A Ott⁶, W Niessen⁷, Nhtm Dukers-Muijers^{8

9}, Cjpa Hoebe^{8

9}, Fdh Koedijk¹⁰, Cjg Kampman¹⁰, Jeam van Bergen^{1

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¹ Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
² Department of Pulmonology, Interstitial Lung Diseases Center of Excellence, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
³ Municipal Public Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases, Municipal Public Health Service Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Medical Microbiology, Certe, Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁷ Municipal Public Health Service Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁸ Department of Medical Microbiology, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁹ Department of Sexual Health, Infectious Diseases and Environmental Health, South Limburg Public Health Service, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ Public Health Service Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
¹¹ Department of General Practice, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹² STI AIDS Netherlands (SOA AIDS Nederland), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Keywords: Chlamydia trachomatis; epidemiology; general practice; primary care; sexual health.

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