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. 2014 Aug 14;6(3):1691-704.
doi: 10.3390/cancers6031691.

Oral Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection among Unvaccinated High-Risk Young Adults

Gypsyamber D'Souza  1 , Nicole Kluz  2 , Alicia Wentz  3 , Renee M Youngfellow  4 , Anne Griffioen  5 , Emily Stammer  6 , Yingshi Guo  7 , Weihong Xiao  8 , Maura L Gillison  9
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Oral Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection among Unvaccinated High-Risk Young Adults

Gypsyamber D'Souza et al. Cancers (Basel). .

Abstract

Oral HPV infection, the cause of most oropharyngeal cancer in the U.S., is not well studied among high-risk young adults. Men (n = 340) and women (n = 270) aged 18-25 years attending Baltimore County STD clinics were recruited if they declined HPV vaccination. Each participant had a 30-second oral rinse and gargle sample tested for 37 types of HPV DNA, and a risk-factor survey. Factors associated with prevalent infection were explored using log binomial regression. Men had higher prevalence of any oral HPV (15.3% vs. 7.8%, p = 0.004) and vaccine-type oral HPV (i.e., HPV16/18/6/11: 5.0% vs. 1.1%, p = 0.007) infection than women. In multivariate analysis, male gender (aPR = 1.93, 95% CI = 1.10-3.39), number of recent oral sex partners (p-trend = 0.013) and having ever performed oral sex on a woman (aPR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.06-2.82) were associated with increased oral HPV prevalence. Performing oral sex on a woman may confer higher risk of oral HPV acquisition than performing oral sex on a man.

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