Cytomegalovirus Infection in Women Attending a Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic

To evaluate prospectively the relationship between current and past sexual practices and seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in adult women, 1481 women (1101white, 301 black, 79 other) attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic underwent a standardized interview and genital examination. CMV...

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Published in:The Journal of infectious diseases 1990-07, Vol.162 (1), p.46-51
Main Authors: Collier, Ann C., Handsfield, H. Hunter, Roberts, Pacita L., DeRouen, Tim, Meyers, Joel D., Leach, Laurel, Murphy, Victory L., Verdon, Michael, Corey, Lawrence
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
African Americans
Age
Antibodies, Viral - analysis
Biological and medical sciences
Black people
Chlamydia trachomatis
Cohort Studies
Contraception
Cytomegalovirus
Cytomegalovirus - immunology
Cytomegalovirus Infections - epidemiology
Cytomegalovirus Infections - etiology
Educational Status
Epidemiology
European Continental Ancestry Group
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender equality
Human sexual behavior
Humans
Infections
Major Articles
Microbiology
Prevalence
Prospective Studies
Regression Analysis
Sexual Behavior
Sexual Partners
Sexual transmission
Sexually transmitted diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases - epidemiology
Virology
White people
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Summary:To evaluate prospectively the relationship between current and past sexual practices and seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in adult women, 1481 women (1101white, 301 black, 79 other) attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic underwent a standardized interview and genital examination. CMV seroprevalence was higher in black (78%) than in white (59%) women. In logistic regression models that adjusted for age and years of education, CMV seropositivity in white women was associated with younger sexual debut (P = .001), more lifetime sex partners (P = .025), recent new partner(s) (P = .003), and parity (P = .002), and was inversely associated with use ofbarrier contraception (P = .006). In black women, after adjustment for demographic characteristics, CMV antibody was associated with greater numbers of recent sex partners (P = .007), new sex partners (P = .04), and with cervical infection with Chlamydia trachomatis (P = .05). This study confirms that sexual activity is an important determinant of CMV infection in both white and black women; however, the relative contributions of sexual and nonsexual transmission of CMV apparently vary and require further investigation.
ISSN:0022-1899
1537-6613
DOI:10.1093/infdis/162.1.46