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- Title
Scent recognition of infected status in humans.
- Authors
Moshkin, Mikhail; Litvinova, Nadezhda; Litvinova, Ekaterina A; Bedareva, Alena; Lutsyuk, Andrey; Gerlinskaya, Ludmila
- Abstract
There is a body of experimental evidence that mice and rats use chemical signals to avoid sexual contact with infected conspecifics. In contrast to animals, body scent of sick humans is employed only in medical diagnostics. A modification of human body odor, due to an infection, has not been studied as a potential signal for choice of a sexual partner. It might, however, be especially important for sexually transmitted infections (STI) because many such infections have no obvious external manifestations.
- Publication
The journal of sexual medicine, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 12, p3211
- ISSN
1743-6109
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02562.x