PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Close, Elizabeth
AU  - Jones, Alexander
AU  - Noggle, William
ED  - Crawford, Paul
TI  - Doxycycline Postexposure Prophylaxis for Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2024.240056R0
DP  - 2025 Jan 17
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - jabfm.2024.240056R0
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/early/2025/01/16/jabfm.2024.240056R0.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/early/2025/01/16/jabfm.2024.240056R0.full
AB  - Consider prescribing doxycycline as prophylaxis for bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in certain clinical scenarios. New data suggests that a one-time dose of 200 mg doxycycline taken within 72 hours of an unprotected sexual encounter may reduce transmission of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia by a combined two thirds in a high-risk population.