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Genital transmission of human papillomavirus in recently formed heterosexual couples.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2011
Burchell Ann N, Coutlée François, Tellier Pierre-Paul, Hanley James, Franco Eduardo L
Abstract excerpt
We estimated human papillomavirus (HPV) transmission rates among persons with documented sexual exposure to an infected partner. Recently formed couples enrolled in the HITCH Study (HPV Infection and Transmission among Couples through Heterosexual activity) in Montreal, Canada, and provided genital specimens for DNA testing of 36 HPV genotypes. At enrollment, 179 couples were discordant for ≥1 HPV types;...
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