Why Sexually Transmitted Infections Tend to Cause Infertility: An Evolutionary Hypothesis
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1 MTA-ELTE Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 2 Laboratory for Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 3 Centro de Malária e Outras Doenças Tropicais and Unidade de Microbiologia, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 4 Parmenides Center for the Conceptual Foundations of Science, Pullach/Munich, Germany
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