Talía Malagón1, Aaron MacCosham1, Ann N Burchell2,3, Mariam El-Zein1, Pierre-Paul Tellier4, François Coutlée5,6, Eduardo L Franco1. 1. Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. 2. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada. 3. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. 4. Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. 5. Département de Microbiologie et Infectiologie, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. 6. Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether sexual transmission rates of human papillomaviruses (HPV) differ between sexes and HPV types. We estimate updated transmission rates from the final HITCH cohort study and propose an estimation method that accounts for interval-censored data and infection clearance. METHODS: We enrolled young women 18-24 years old and their male sex partners ≥18 years old in Montréal, Canada, between 2005 and 2011. We followed women over 24 months and men over 4 months. We tested genital samples with Linear Array for HPV DNA detection and genotyping. We calculated infection transmission rates between partners using a multistate Markov model via a Bayesian approach. We report the posterior median and 2.5%-97.5% percentile intervals (95% PI). RESULTS: We observed 166 type-specific incident HPV transmission events in 447 women and 402 men. The estimated median transmission rate from an HPV-positive to a negative partner was 4.2 (95% PI = 3.1 to 5.3) per 100 person-months. The transmission rate from men-to-women was 3.5 (95% PI = 2.5 to 4.7) and from women-to-men was 5.6 (95% PI = 3.8 to 7.0) per 100 person-months, corresponding to a rate ratio of 1.6 (95% PI = 1.0 to 2.5). Partners reporting always using condoms had a 0.22 (95% PI = 0.05 to 0.61) times lower HPV transmission rate than those reporting never using condoms. HPV16/18 did not have particularly high transmission rates relative to other HPV types. CONCLUSION: Our updated analysis supports previous research suggesting higher women-to-men than men-to-women HPV transmission rates and a protective effect of condoms in heterosexual partnerships. Our results also suggest that crude incidence rates underestimate HPV transmission rates due to interval-censoring. See video abstract at http://links.lww.com/EDE/B794.
BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether sexual transmission rates of human papillomaviruses (HPV) differ between sexes and HPV types. We estimate updated transmission rates from the final HITCH cohort study and propose an estimation method that accounts for interval-censored data and infection clearance. METHODS: We enrolled young women 18-24 years old and their male sex partners ≥18 years old in Montréal, Canada, between 2005 and 2011. We followed women over 24 months and men over 4 months. We tested genital samples with Linear Array for HPV DNA detection and genotyping. We calculated infection transmission rates between partners using a multistate Markov model via a Bayesian approach. We report the posterior median and 2.5%-97.5% percentile intervals (95% PI). RESULTS: We observed 166 type-specific incident HPV transmission events in 447 women and 402 men. The estimated median transmission rate from an HPV-positive to a negative partner was 4.2 (95% PI = 3.1 to 5.3) per 100 person-months. The transmission rate from men-to-women was 3.5 (95% PI = 2.5 to 4.7) and from women-to-men was 5.6 (95% PI = 3.8 to 7.0) per 100 person-months, corresponding to a rate ratio of 1.6 (95% PI = 1.0 to 2.5). Partners reporting always using condoms had a 0.22 (95% PI = 0.05 to 0.61) times lower HPV transmission rate than those reporting never using condoms. HPV16/18 did not have particularly high transmission rates relative to other HPV types. CONCLUSION: Our updated analysis supports previous research suggesting higher women-to-men than men-to-women HPV transmission rates and a protective effect of condoms in heterosexual partnerships. Our results also suggest that crude incidence rates underestimate HPV transmission rates due to interval-censoring. See video abstract at http://links.lww.com/EDE/B794.
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