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1993 Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Treatment Guidelines
09/24/1993
SUGGESTED CITATION
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 1993 Sexually
transmitted diseases treatment guidelines. MMWR 1993;42(No. RR-14):
{inclusive page numbers}.
CIO Responsible for this publication:
National Center for Prevention Services,
Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV Prevention
Management of Sex Partners
Examination of sex partners is not necessary. The majority of
partners are probably already infected subclinically with HPV. No
practical screening tests for subclinical infection are available.
The use of condoms may reduce transmission to partners likely to be
uninfected, such as new partners; however, the period of
communicability is unknown. Experts speculate that HPV infection
may persist throughout a patient's lifetime in a dormant state and
become infectious intermittently. Whether patients with subclinical
HPV infection are as contagious as patients with exophytic warts is
unknown.
