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Most current guidelines, however, also recommend testing extra-genital sites, including rectal locations, because asymptomatic rectal carriage of pathogens has often been reported. The aim of our study was to evaluate self-collected rectal swabs to screen bacterial STIs in HIV-infected patients in Marseille, France.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>\n                  <jats:bold>Methodology.<\/jats:bold> Between January 2014 and December 2015, 118 HIV-infected patients (93 males and 25 females) agreed to self-sample anal swabs for detection of bacterial STI. Detection of <jats:italic>Neisseria gonorrhoeae<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Chlamydia trachomatis<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Treponema pallidum<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Mycoplasma genitalium<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Haemophilus ducreyi<\/jats:italic> was performed using in-house qPCR assay.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>\n                  <jats:bold>Results\/Key findings.<\/jats:bold> Bacterial STIs were found in 8\u200a% (9\/118) of the patients. <jats:italic>C. trachomatis<\/jats:italic> was the most commonly detected bacterium (4.2\u200a%) followed by <jats:italic>N. gonorrhoeae<\/jats:italic> (2.5\u200a%), <jats:italic>M. genitalium<\/jats:italic> (1.7\u200a%) and <jats:italic>T. pallidum<\/jats:italic> (0.8\u200a%). All the positive patients were males. 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