Evaluating the risk of HIV transmission through unprotected orogenital sex.
We analysed a cohort of heterosexual HIV- serodiscordant couples with the aim of evaluating the risk of transmission ascribed to unprotected orogenital intercourse. A total of 135 seronegative individuals (110 women and 25 men), whose only risk exposure to HIV was unprotected orogenital sex with their infected partner, registered 210 person-years of follow-up. After an estimated total of over 19,000 unprotected orogenital exposures with the infected partner not a single HIV seroconversion occurred.
del Romero
Jorge
J
Centro Sanitario Sandoval, Servicio Regional de Salud, Madrid, Spain.
Marincovich
Beatriz
B
Castilla
Jesús
J
García
Soledad
S
Campo
Julián
J
Hernando
Victoria
V
Rodríguez
Carmen
C
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D020010:Heterosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012306:Risk; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D012747:Sexual Partners