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- Title
Detection and Clearance of Type-Specific and Phylogenetically Related Genital Human Papillomavirus Infections in Young Women in New Heterosexual Relationships.
- Authors
Arthur, Andrew W; El-Zein, Mariam; Burchell, Ann N; Tellier, Pierre-Paul; Coutlée, François; Franco, Eduardo L
- Abstract
Background Understanding the natural history of human papillomavirus (HPV) infections is essential to cervical cancer prevention planning. We estimated HPV type-specific infection detection and clearance in young women. Methods The HPV Infection and Transmission among Couples through Heterosexual activity (HITCH) study is a prospective cohort of 502 college-age women who recently initiated a heterosexual relationship. We tested vaginal samples collected at 6 clinical visits over 24 months for 36 HPV types. Using rates and Kaplan-Meier analysis, we estimated time-to-event statistics with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for detection of incident infections and clearance of incident and present-at-baseline infections (separately). We conducted analyses at the woman- and HPV-levels, with HPV types grouped by phylogenetic relatedness. Results By 24 months, we detected incident infections in 40.4% (CI, 33.4%–48.4%) of women. Incident subgenus 1 (43.4; CI, 33.6–56.4), 2 (47.1; CI, 39.9–55.5), and 3 (46.6; CI, 37.7–57.7) infections cleared at similar rates per 1000 infection-months. We observed similar homogeny in HPV-level clearance rates among present-at-baseline infections. Conclusions Our analyses provide type-specific infection natural history estimates for cervical cancer prevention planning. HPV-level analyses did not clearly indicate that high oncogenic risk subgenus 2 infections persist longer than their low oncogenic risk subgenera 1 and 3 counterparts.
- Publication
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2024, Vol 229, Issue 3, p691
- ISSN
0022-1899
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/infdis/jiad450