Assessment of self taken swabs versus clinician taken swab cultures for diagnosing gonorrhoea in women: single centre, diagnostic accuracy study.

Objective: To compare gonorrhoea detection by self taken vulvovaginal swabs (tested with nucleic acid amplification tests) with the culture of urethral and endocervical samples taken by clinicians.

Design: Prospective study of diagnostic accuracy.

Setting: 1 sexual health clinic in an urban setting (Leeds Centre for Sexual Health, United Kingdom), between March 2009 and January 2010.

Assessment of best single sample for finding chlamydia in women with and without symptoms: a diagnostic test study.

Objective: To compare vulvovaginal swabs with endocervical swabs as optimal diagnostic sample for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis infection.

Design: A diagnostic test study.

Setting: An urban sexual health centre.