Why Sexually Transmitted Infections Tend to Cause Infertility: An Evolutionary Hypothesis

PLoS Pathogens

Viktor Müller¹  João Dinis de Sousa²  Péter Apari³ 

[1]Centro de Malária e Outras Doenças Tropicais and Unidade de Microbiologia, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

[2]Laboratory for Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

[3]MTA-ELTE Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

关键词: Male infertility;    Infertility;    Female infertility;    Sexually transmitted diseases;    Chlamydia trachomatis;    Pathogens;    Evolutionary adaptation;    Evolutionary immunology;   

DOI  :  10.1371/journal.ppat.1004111

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Public Library of Science

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