This study reports the human papillomavirus (HPV) yearly trends among young, sexually active, predominantly unvaccinated heterosexual men with chlamydia infection during an 11-year period.
Our study showed a dramatic fall in the 4 HPV genotypes included in the vaccine in Australian-born men after the introduction of a national female vaccination programme. This fall in the 4 HPV genotypes fits in with reductions in genital warts in men reported in previous studies. These findings provide the first evidence that the female vaccine provides indirect protection (herd protection) to their male partners from the HPV genotypes included in the vaccine.
Publications
Quadrivalent vaccine-targeted human papillomavirus genotypes in heterosexual men after the Australian female human papillomavirus vaccination programme: a retrospective observational study
Chow EPF, Machalek DA, Tabrizi SN, Danielewski JA, Fehler G, Bradshaw CS, Garland SM, Chen MY, Fairley CK
(2017), The Lancet Infectious Diseases,