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

Péter Apari; João Dinis de Sousa; Viktor Müller

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1004111

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

PLoS Pathog. 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.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution*
Humans
Infertility / microbiology*
Sexually Transmitted Diseases / complications*
Sexually Transmitted Diseases / microbiology*

Grants and funding

VM is a Fellow of the Parmenides Center for the Conceptual Foundations of Science (http://www.parmenides-foundation.org/). PA was supported by a Young Researcher Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (http://mta.hu/). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.