Assessing the drivers of syphilis among men who have sex with men in Switzerland reveals a key impact of screening frequency: A modelling study

• Suraj Balakrishna ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Suraj Balakrishna, Luisa Salazar-Vizcaya

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: suraj.balakrishna@usz.ch

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9250-4078

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• Luisa Salazar-Vizcaya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Suraj Balakrishna, Luisa Salazar-Vizcaya

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Axel J. Schmidt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Switzerland, Sigma Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

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• Viacheslav Kachalov,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0310-3764

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• Katharina Kusejko,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4638-1940

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• Maria Christine Thurnheer,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1357-0347

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• Jan A. Roth,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Research and Analytical Services, Department of Informatics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Dunja Nicca,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4133-8177

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• Matthias Cavassini,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0933-7833

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• Manuel Battegay,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6638-3679

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• Patrick Schmid,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Switzerland

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• Enos Bernasconi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Regional Hospital Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9724-8373

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• Huldrych F. Günthard,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1142-6723

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• Andri Rauch ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AR and RDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Roger D. Kouyos ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AR and RDK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9220-8348

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• the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS)

  ¶Membership of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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