Resistance Testing Guidelines Panel Archives

Practice Question of the Week

Which of the following statements about prevention of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is TRUE?
- A. The meningococcal type B (4CMenB) vaccine significantly reduced the rate of gonorrhea infections among men who have sex with men (MSM)
- B. Despite an increase in sexual risk among MSM and transgender women newly starting doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (doxy-PEP), bacterial STI rates fell by approximately half
- C. Doxycycline was present in the majority of hair samples collected among women in the dPEP-KE (Doxycycline PEP for Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Kenyan Women Using HIV PrEP) study, suggesting that biologic factors explain the lack of doxy-PEP efficacy in women
- D. In the year after the implementation of doxy-PEP guidelines in San Francisco, rates of chlamydia, syphilis, and gonorrhea in MSM and transgender women fell by half