Changes in the prevalence of self-reported sexually transmitted bacterial infections from 2010 and 2017 in two large European samples of men having sex with men–is it time to re-evaluate STI-screening as a control strategy?

• Ulrich Marcus ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: MarcusU@rki.de

  Affiliation Department for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3143-2717

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• Massimo Mirandola,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, Infectious Diseases Section, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2342-5867

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• Susanne B. Schink,

  Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Lorenzo Gios,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, Infectious Diseases Section, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

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• Axel J. Schmidt

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6910-4399

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