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  1. Giovanni Villa1,
  2. Monica Desai2,
  3. Xiang-Sheng Chen3,4
  1. 1 Department of Global Health & Infection, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK
  2. 2 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Manchester, UK
  3. 3 National Center for STD Control, Nanjing, China
  4. 4 Institute of Dermatology, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Nanjing, China
  1. Correspondence to Dr Giovanni Villa, Global Health & Infection, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton BN1 9PX, UK; G.Villa{at}bsms.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2020-054854

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    • Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

    • Contributors All authors contributed equally to the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.