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SUBMITTER: Xu X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7670797 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Xianglong X Chow Eric P F EPF Ong Jason J JJ Hoebe Christian J P A CJPA Zou Zhuoru Z Hocking Jane S JS Fairley Christopher K CK Zhang Lei L
BMC medicine 20201117 1
<h4>Background</h4>It has been presumed that Chlamydia trachomatis is transmitted between men only through anal or oral sex, but no mathematical models have tested this presumption.<h4>Methods</h4>To test this presumption, we created 20 compartmental mathematical models of different sexual practices that included both oral and anal sex and calibrated these models to the observed rates of Chlamydia trachomatis infection at three anatomical sites from 4888 men who have sex with men (MSM) in Melbou ...[more]