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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Dis. 2022 Sep 24;50(1):5–10. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001714

Table 2.

Number of and percent of NG/CT testing episodes among STD clinic patients by pathogen, STD Surveillance Network, 2015-2018.

Total Episodes
(n=190,589)
Episodes among
MSM
(n=75,343)
Episodes among
Heterosexual men
(n=64,815)
Episodes among
Women
(n=50,431)
# (%) Positive # (%) Positive # (%) Positive # (%) Positive
No infection detected 153,701 (80.6) 56,999 (75.7) 52,724 (81.3) 43,978 (87.2)
CT only 18,235 (9.6) 7,048 (9.4) 6,968 (10.8) 4,219 (8.4)
NG only
14,265 (7.5) 8,638 (11.5) 4,014 (6.2) 1,613 (3.2)
Co-infection with NG and CT 4,388 (2.3) 2,658 (3.5) 1,109 (1.7) 621 (1.2)
*

Genital indicates urine or urethral specimens in men; urine or cervical/vaginal specimens in women.

ACRONYMNS: STD=sexually transmitted disease; MSM=gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men; NG=gonorrhea; CT=chlamydia