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Prevalence of cervical human papillomavirus in women undergoing in vitro fertilization and association with outcome.

Spandorfer SD, Bongiovanni AM, Fasioulotis S, Rosenwaks Z, Ledger WJ, Witkin SS

The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA. sdspando@med.cornell.edu

Human papillomavirus (HPV) was detected in 17 (16.0%) of 106 patients undergoing treatment for IVF. Human papillomavirus-positive women had a decreased pregnancy rate (4 of 17, 23.5%) as compared with HPV-negative women (51 of 89, 57.0%; P<.02).

Published 5 September 2006 in Fertil Steril, 86(3): 765-7.
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