Peer Reviewed Publications – STI

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• Jesse Knight, Siyi Wang, Sharmistha Mishra (preprint) Adjusting for hidden biases in sexual behaviour data: a mechanistic approach. medRxiv.

• Robert R Lorway, Pascal Macharia, John Maina, John Mathenge, Samuel Anyula Gorigo, Lyle R McKinnon, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Peter Arimi, Souradet Shaw, Yoav Keynan, Stephen Moses, Joshua Kimani, Marissa L Becker, Sharmistha Mishra, Lisa Lazarus, Matthew Thomann (2022) An urgent call to include men who have sex with men in the HPV immunisation programme in Kenya. BMJ Global Health 7(9): e009831.

• Ann N Burchell, Darrell HS Tan, Ramandip Grewal, Paul A MacPherson, Sharon Walmsley, Anita Rachlis, Nisha Andany, Sharmistha Mishra, Sandra L Gardner, Janet Raboud, David Fisman, Curtis Cooper, Kevin Gough, John Maxwell, Sean B Rourke, Rodney Rousseau, Tony Mazzulli, Irving E Salit, Vanessa G Allen (2022) Routinized Syphilis Screening Among Men Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Clinical Infectious Diseases 74(5): 846-853.

• Kinnon R MacKinnon, Ramandip Grewal, Darrell HS Tan, Rodney Rousseau, John Maxwell, Sharon Walmsley, Paul A MacPherson, Anita Rachlis, Nisha Andany, Sharmistha Mishra, Vanessa G Allen, Ann N Burchell (2021) Patient perspectives on the implementation of routinised syphilis screening with HIV viral load testing: Qualitative process evaluation of the Enhanced Syphilis Screening Among HIV-positive Men trial. BMC Health Services Research 21: 625.

• Aida Sivro, Ruth Mwatelah, Cheli Kambaran, Henok Gebrebrhan, Michael G Becker, Huiting Ma, Nichole R Klatt, Alexander S Zevin, Nzioki King’ola, Sammy Wambua, Peter Gichangi, Eve Cheuk, Paul J McLaren, Sharmistha Mishra, Marissa Becker, Lyle R McKinnon (2020) Sex Work Is Associated With Increased Vaginal Microbiome Diversity in Young Women From Mombasa, Kenya. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 85(1): 79-87.

• Jesse Knight, Stefan D Baral, Sheree Schwartz, Linwei Wang, Huiting Ma, Katherine Young, Harry Hausler, Sharmistha Mishra (2020) Contribution of high risk groups’ unmet needs may be underestimated in epidemic models without risk turnover: a mechanistic modelling analysis. Infectious Disease Modelling 5: 549-562.

• Aidan Ablona, Titilola Falasinnu, Michael Irvine, Claudia Estcourt, Paul Flowers, Michelle Murti, Oralia Gomez-Ramirez, Christopher K Fairley, Sharmistha Mishra, Ann Burchell, Troy Grennan, Mark Gilbert (2020) Validation of a clinical prediction rule to predict asymptomatic chlamydia and gonorrhea infections among internet-based testers. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 48(7): 481-487.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Stefan D Baral (2020) Rethinking the population attributable fraction for infectious diseases. Lancet Infectious Diseases 20(2): 155-157.

• Joshua Feldman, Sharmistha Mishra (2019) What could re-infection tell us about R0? A modeling case-study of syphilis transmission. Infectious Disease Modelling 4: 257-264.

• Ashleigh R Tuite, Souradet Shaw, Joss N Reimer, Craig P Ross, David N Fisman, Sharmistha Mishra (2018) Can enhanced screening of men with a history of prior syphilis infection stem the epidemic in men who have sex with men? A mathematical modelling study. Sexually Transmitted Infections 94(2): 105-110.

• Dionne Gesink, Susan Wang, Tim Guimond, Lauren Kimura, James Connell, Travis Salway, Mark Gilbert, Sharmistha Mishra, Darrell Tan, Ann N Burchell, David J Brennan, Carmen H Logie, Daniel Grace (2018) Conceptualizing geosexual archetypes: mapping the sexual travels and ego-centric sexual networks of gay and bisexual men in Toronto, Canada. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 45(6): 368-373.

• Ann N Burchell, Vanessa G Allen, Ramandip Grewal, Paul A MacPherson, Anita Rachlis, Sharon Walmsley, Sharmistha Mishra, Sandra L Gardner, Janet Raboud, Curtis Cooper, Kevin Gough, Sean B Rourke, Rodney Rousseau, Irving Salit, Darrell HS Tan (2016) Enhanced syphilis screening among HIV-positive men (ESSAHM): a study protocol for a clinic-randomized trial with stepped wedge design. Implementation Science 11: 8.

• Ashleigh R Tuite, David N Fisman, Sharmistha Mishra (2013) Screen more or screen more often? Using mathematical models to inform syphilis control strategies. BMC Public Health 13: 606.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Marie-Claude Boily, Victoria Ng, Wayne L Gold, Tom Okura, Marsha Shaw, Tony Mazzulli, David N Fisman (2011) The laboratory impact of changing syphilis screening from the rapid-plasma reagin to a treponemal enzyme immunoassay: a case-study from the Greater Toronto Area. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 38(3): 190-196.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Balaji Naik, B Venugopal, Prakash Kudur, Reynold Washington, Marissa Becker, John Kenneth, Krishnamurthy Jayanna, Banadakoppa M Ramesh, Shajy Isac, Marie-Claude Boily, James F Blanchard, Stephen Moses (2010) Syphilis screening among female sex workers in Bangalore, India: comparison of point-of-care testing and traditional serological approaches. Sexually Transmitted Infections 86(3): 193-198.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Stephen Moses, Prakash K Hanumaiah, Reynold Washington, Michel Alary, BM Ramesh, Shajy Isac, James F Blanchard (2009) Sex work, Syphilis, and Seeking Treatment: An Opportunity for Intervention in HIV Prevention Programming in Karnataka, South India. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 36(3): 157-164.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Sharon Lynn Walmsley, Mona Rafik Loutfy, Rupert Kaul, Kenneth John Logue, Wayne Lawrence Gold (2008) Otosyphilis in HIV-coinfected individuals: a case series from Toronto, Canada. AIDS Patient Care and STDs 22(3): 213-219.