Why sexually transmitted infections tend to cause infertility: an evolutionary hypothesis

Péter Apari¹, João Dinis de Sousa², Viktor Müller³

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¹ MTA-ELTE Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
² Laboratory for Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Centro de Malária e Outras Doenças Tropicais and Unidade de Microbiologia, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
³ MTA-ELTE Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; Parmenides Center for the Conceptual Foundations of Science, Pullach/Munich, Germany.

PMID: 25101790
PMCID: PMC4125283
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004111

Why sexually transmitted infections tend to cause infertility: an evolutionary hypothesis

Péter Apari et al. PLoS Pathog. 2014.

. 2014 Aug 7;10(8):e1004111.

doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004111. eCollection 2014 Aug.

Authors

Péter Apari¹, João Dinis de Sousa², Viktor Müller³

Affiliations

¹ MTA-ELTE Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
² Laboratory for Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Centro de Malária e Outras Doenças Tropicais and Unidade de Microbiologia, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
³ MTA-ELTE Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; Parmenides Center for the Conceptual Foundations of Science, Pullach/Munich, Germany.

PMID: 25101790
PMCID: PMC4125283
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004111

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