Pubic hair removal: a risk factor for ‘minor’ STI such as molluscum contagiosum?
Pubic hair removal: a risk factor for ‘minor’ STI such as molluscum contagiosum?
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公共场所脱毛:传染性软疣等“轻微”性传播感染的危险因素?
DOI:
10.1136/sextrans-2012-050982
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
D. Dubois
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作者:
F. Desruelles;S. Cunningham;D. Dubois
Before emerging as a fashion phenomenon, removal of pubic hair was primarily done for cultural and religious reasons (eg, this is, with circumcision, one of the items of the fitra in the Muslim religion).
Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) is a poxvirus and includes two strains: MCV1 and MCV2. MCV is generally observed in children and immunocompromised patients, and sometimes sexually transmitted. There has been an increasing incidence of sexually transmitted MCV (STMC) in the last decade.1 However, there is no proven predominance of …