Tobacco use associated with increased risk of oral HPV-16 infection

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 11:01 in Health & Medicine

Study participants who reported tobacco use or had higher levels of biomarkers of tobacco exposure had a higher prevalence of the sexually transmitted infection, oral human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16), according to a study.

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