title: Why sexually transmitted infections tend to cause infertility: an evolutionary hypothesis.
authors.affiliation: MTA-ELTE Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Apari
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Centro de Malária e Outras Doenças Tropicais and Unidade de Microbiologia, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
authors.forename: João Dinis
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: de Sousa
authors.affiliation: MTA-ELTE Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; Parmenides Center for the Conceptual Foundations of Science, Pullach/Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Viktor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000382:microbiology*; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology*
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