{"id":933,"date":"2012-10-05T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T11:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=933"},"modified":"2024-02-23T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:30:41","slug":"chlamydia-and-gonorrhoea-testing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/chlamydia-and-gonorrhoea-testing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sti.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2012\/09\/27\/sextrans-2012-050573.abstract?papetoc\">New research<\/a> in Canada has been looking at the different methods of testing for Chlamydia and gonorrhoea in Men.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-6-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7744\" width=\"768\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-6-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-6-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-6-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-6-1536x778.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bacteria-6-2048x1037.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The study was looking at urine tests and self-administered swabs using the APITMA Combo 2 assay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the study, 511 men from a high risk street youth clinic were tested. One group collected a urine sample and the APTIMA swab, the second group collected a urine sample, the APTIMA swab and a flocked swab. They were asked to say which collection method they preferred and the positive rates were collected for each person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The positive rate for chlamydia was 7.8%, and for gonorrhoea was 2.7% &#8211; where 80% of those who tested positive did not report any symptoms. Both of the swab types (flocked and APTIMA) identified the same positive and negative cases, but the swabs identified 2 more cases of chlamydia and 3 more of gonorrhoea than the urine test. However, 63% of the sample preferred the urine test, and 60% preferred the flocked swab to the APTIMA swab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study concluded that APTIMA swabbing could be a reliable alternative to flocked swabbing but was less popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better2Know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/page\/std-sti-testing\">tests for Chlamydia and gonorrhoea<\/a> by: urine, throat swab, rectal swab and vaginal swab (women only). Please visit our main website to find out more about where to test and how to book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research in Canada has been looking at the different methods of testing for Chlamydia and gonorrhoea in Men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1246,850,1230,795,744,628,3141,740,1682],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8006,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/8006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}