Just How Good Is Your Rule of Thumb? Validating Male-to-Female Gonorrhea Case Ratio As a Proxy for MSM-Involved Epidemics at the County Level
Mark Stenger, MA, DSTDP/Surveillance and Data Management Branch, CDC, Atlanta, GA, Heidi Bauer, MD, MS, MPH, STD Control Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA, Margaret Eaglin, MPH, MUPP, HIV/STI Bureau, City of Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, IL, Megan Jespersen, MPH, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Program, LA Office of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, Robbie Madera, MPH, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, Mukhtar Mohamed, MPH, MA, STD Control Program, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, CT, Robert P. Kohn, MPH, Applied Research, Community Health, Epidemiology, and Surveillance (ARCHES) Branch, Population Health Division, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, River Pugsley, PhD, MPH, Division of Disease Prevention - STD Surveillance, Operations and Data Administration, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, VA, Irina Tabidze, MD, MPH, Division STI/HIV, Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, IL and Elizabeth Torrone, MSPH, PhD, Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA