Risk Factors for Asymptomatic Enteric Pathogen Detection Among Men Who Have Sex With Men

Deborah A Williamson; Eric P F Chow; Darren Lee; Kate Maddaford; Michelle Sait; Marion Easton; Danielle Ingle; Rebecca Wigan; Vesna De Petra; Benjamin P Howden; Christopher K Fairley; Marcus Y Chen

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofz326

Risk Factors for Asymptomatic Enteric Pathogen Detection Among Men Who Have Sex With Men

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Jul 11;6(9):ofz326. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz326. eCollection 2019 Sep.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia.
² Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.
³ Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

Improved knowledge of factors that promote outbreaks of enteric pathogens among men who have sex with men (MSM) could enable targeted public health interventions. We detected enteric pathogens in 57 of 519 (11%) asymptomatic MSM, and we found that enteric pathogen detection was associated with both oroanal sex (rimming) and group sex.

Keywords: enteric pathogens; epidemiology; gastrointestinal disease; sexually transmitted infections.