ArticlePLoS pathogens2014
Why sexually transmitted infections tend to cause infertility: an evolutionary hypothesis.
Article in PLoS pathogens, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Global epidemiology ofSexually transmitted infections · 2021Pooled it
- Impacts of Contraception on Future Fertility: Addressing Concerns to Improve Understanding.Studies in family planning · 2026Article
- The possible pathogenic mechanisms of microorganisms in infertility: a narrative review.Archives of microbiology · 2025Review
- Socio-Economic and Health Literacy Inequalities as Determinants of Women's Knowledge about Their Reproductive System: A Cross-Sectional Study.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Spatial Distribution and Factors Associated with Multiple Sexual Partnerships among Reproductive-Aged Men in Ethiopia: A Spatial and Mixed-Effect Analysis of the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey.HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Article
- Mumps Orchitis: Clinical Aspects and Mechanisms.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Review
- Effects ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Antagonistic coevolution between hosts and sexually transmitted infections.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2020Article
- Periodic catastrophes over human evolutionary history are necessary to explain the forager population paradox.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Host targeted antiviral (HTA): functional inhibitor compounds of scaffold protein RACK1 inhibit herpes simplex virus proliferation.Oncotarget · 2019Article
- Sperm success and immunity.Current topics in developmental biology · 2019Review
- Epithelial stratification shapes infection dynamics.PLoS computational biology · 2019Article
- Incident HIV during pregnancy and early postpartum period: a population-based cohort study in a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2017Article
- Education, early screening and treatment of STIs could reduce infertility among women in Kenya.Facts, views & vision in ObGyn · 2017Article
- Transmission dynamics: critical questions and challenges.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Mouse Testicular Cell Type-Specific Antiviral Response against Mumps Virus Replication.Frontiers in immunology · 2017Article
- Beyond Mortality: Sterility As a Neglected Component of Parasite Virulence.PLoS pathogens · 2015Article
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