Use of Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing for Diagnosis of Anorectal Sexually Transmitted Infections

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Nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) has become the preferred method to detect Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae, but no commercial tests are cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use with rectal swab samples. This study evaluated the performance of strand displacement amplification (SDA) and transcription-mediated amplification (TMA) to detect C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae...

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