Asymptomatic Rectal Bacterial Pathogens Show Large Prospective Relationships With HIV Incidence in a Cohort of Young Sexual and Gender Minorities: Implications for STI Screening and HIV Prevention
Baiers R, Ryan D, Clifford A, Munson E, D’Aquila R, Newcomb M, Mustanski B. Asymptomatic Rectal Bacterial Pathogens Show Large Prospective Relationships With HIV Incidence in a Cohort of Young Sexual and Gender Minorities: Implications for STI Screening and HIV Prevention. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2024, 11: ofae444. PMID: 39183815, PMCID: PMC11342390, DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae444.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHIV seroconversionGeneralized estimating equationsChlamydia trachomatisNeisseria gonorrhoeaeHIV infectionPredictors of HIV seroconversionLongitudinal cohort studyPrevent HIV infectionGender minoritiesSTI screeningRectal NGHIV preventionBiobehavioral interventionsHIV incidenceMultivariate GEE analysisAsymptomatic screeningMethods DataStatistically significant predictorsProspective relationshipHIVChicago metropolitan areaPredictive valueEstimating equationsGEE analysisStatistically significant pairwise differences