{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,21]],"date-time":"2025-08-21T16:20:02Z","timestamp":1755793202336,"version":"3.44.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"SMW Supporting Association","issue":"0304","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,17]],"date-time":"2011-01-17T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1295222400000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Swiss Med Wkly"],"abstract":"<jats:p>QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY: In the next Swiss National HIV and  Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Strategy 2011\u20132017, STI control will be  integrated with HIV prevention. Information is needed which will improve the  targeting of professional education. The objective of this study was to  describe the clinical specialities and settings to which patients with  bacterial STI present in Switzerland.\n        METHODS: We analysed notifications of chlamydia from  01.08.2008\u201330.11.2008, and of gonorrhoea and syphilis from 01.07.2007\u201330.11.2008.  We recorded patient details, the speciality of the notifying physician and the setting  (primary or secondary care).\n        RESULTS: We included 2150 notifications of  chlamydia, 1360 of gonorrhoea and 935 of syphilis. In 12.5% of notifications  (556\/4445) a speciality or setting could not be assigned. Most chlamydia  (1282\/2150, 59.6%) and gonorrhoea (902\/1360, 66.3%) notifications were from  primary care. Slightly more syphilis notifications (429\/935, 45.9%) were from  secondary than from primary care. General practitioners (GPs) were the single  largest group of specialists notifying gonorrhoea (609\/1360, 44.8%) and  syphilis (223\/935, 23.9%) and the second largest speciality notifying chlamydia  (446\/2150, 20.7%) after gynaecologists in primary care (702\/2150, 32.7%). Where  male sexual orientation was recorded, 52.5% (180\/343) of gonorrhoea cases and  30.3% of syphilis cases in men who have sex with men (50\/165) were notified by  GPs.\n        CONCLUSIONS: GPs and  other specialists in primary care notify the majority of chlamydia and  gonorrhoea and a substantial percentage of syphilis in Switzerland.  These physicians will be at the forefront of STI management and secondary  prevention to be delivered as part of an integrated HIV and STI strategy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4414\/smw.2011.13143","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,10,27]],"date-time":"2011-10-27T03:48:08Z","timestamp":1319687288000},"page":"w13143","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Clinical  settings and specialities notifying cases of bacterial sexually transmitted  infections in Switzerland"],"prefix":"10.57187","volume":"141","author":[{"given":"A","family":"Baillif","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"36756","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,17]]},"container-title":["Swiss Medical Weekly"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/smw.ch\/index.php\/smw\/article\/download\/1237\/1358","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/smw.ch\/index.php\/smw\/article\/download\/1237\/1359","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/smw.ch\/index.php\/smw\/article\/download\/1237\/1358","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,15]],"date-time":"2025-08-15T02:37:26Z","timestamp":1755225446000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/smw.ch\/index.php\/smw\/article\/view\/1237"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,17]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"0304","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,17]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4414\/smw.2011.13143","relation":{},"ISSN":["1424-3997"],"issn-type":[{"type":"electronic","value":"1424-3997"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,17]]}}}