From: Patterns of syphilis testing in a large cohort of HIV patients in Ontario, Canada, 2000–2009
N under observation | Not tested | Non-reactive | Reactive | Reactive & acute (a) | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
MSM | |||||||||
2000 | 1139 | 1108 | 97.3 | 19 | 1.7 | 6 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.1 |
2001 | 1076 | 1019 | 94.7 | 35 | 3.3 | 4 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.1 |
2002 | 1093 | 1006 | 92.0 | 67 | 6.1 | 12 | 1.1 | 5 | 0.5 |
2003 | 1050 | 927 | 88.3 | 83 | 7.9 | 36 | 3.4 | 15 | 1.4 |
2004 | 1114 | 899 | 80.7 | 162 | 14.5 | 47 | 4.2 | 17 | 1.5 |
2005 | 1101 | 708 | 64.3 | 330 | 30.0 | 61 | 5.5 | 15 | 1.4 |
2006 | 1066 | 576 | 54.0 | 384 | 36.0 | 100 | 9.4 | 12 | 1.1 |
2007 | 1071 | 575 | 53.7 | 392 | 36.6 | 103 | 9.6 | 7 | 0.7 |
2008 | 1893 | 1007 | 53.2 | 631 | 33.3 | 246 | 13.0 | 47 | 2.5 |
2009 | 2309 | 988 | 42.8 | 918 | 39.8 | 400 | 17.3 | 88 | 3.8 |
P-value for time trend | P < 0.0001 | P < 0.0001 | |||||||
Non-MSM Males | |||||||||
2000 | 254 | 247 | 97.2 | 5 | 2.0 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 |
2001 | 245 | 226 | 92.2 | 14 | 5.7 | 2 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 |
2002 | 253 | 239 | 94.5 | 11 | 4.3 | 3 | 1.2 | 1 | 0.4 |
2003 | 246 | 231 | 93.9 | 11 | 4.5 | 4 | 1.6 | 1 | 0.4 |
2004 | 266 | 238 | 89.5 | 28 | 10.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2005 | 262 | 192 | 73.3 | 67 | 25.6 | 3 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 |
2006 | 255 | 170 | 66.7 | 75 | 29.4 | 10 | 3.9 | 1 | 0.4 |
2007 | 259 | 165 | 63.7 | 84 | 32.4 | 10 | 3.9 | 0 | 0 |
2008 | 388 | 274 | 70.6 | 102 | 26.3 | 12 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 |
2009 | 449 | 244 | 54.3 | 192 | 42.8 | 11 | 2.4 | 0 | 0 |
P-value for time trend | P = 0.0002 | P = 0.4443 | |||||||
Females | |||||||||
2000 | 197 | 191 | 97.0 | 5 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2001 | 190 | 177 | 93.2 | 10 | 5.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2002 | 208 | 189 | 90.9 | 19 | 9.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2003 | 201 | 189 | 94.0 | 12 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2004 | 226 | 200 | 88.5 | 26 | 11.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2005 | 225 | 166 | 73.8 | 59 | 26.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2006 | 233 | 142 | 60.9 | 89 | 38.2 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 |
2007 | 238 | 149 | 62.6 | 88 | 37.0 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 |
2008 | 425 | 293 | 68.9 | 125 | 29.4 | 7 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 |
2009 | 499 | 254 | 50.9 | 234 | 46.9 | 11 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 |
P-value for time trend | P < 0.0001 | n/a |