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. 2016 Jun 1;6(6):1371–1383.

Table 2.

Rates of HPV and non-HPV STDs in overall women included in the study and according to cytological findings

Cytological findings Cytological findings


HPV and non-HPV STDs Overall (N=838) NILM (N=614) ≥ ASC-US (N=224) RR (95% CI) P HSIL (N=71) RR (95% CI) P


n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
HPV-DNA 284 (33.9) 101 (16.4) 183 (81.7) 4.966 (3.727-6.619) < 0.0001 71 (100.0) 6.079 (4.113-8.984) < 0.0001
HR-HPV 230 (27.4) 66 (10.7) 164 (73.2) 6.811 (4.925-9.419) < 0.0001 71 (100.0) 9.303 (6.139-14.10) < 0.0001
HPV-16 95 (11.3) 14 (2.3) 81 (36.2) 15.86 (8.811-28.54) < 0.0001 44 (62.0) 27.18 (14.19-52.05) < 0.0001
LR-HPV 112 (13.4) 63 (10.3) 49 (21.9) 2.132 (1.424-3.192) 0.0003 10 (14.0) 1.373 (0.6741-2.795) 0.4231
HPV-multiple infections 101 (12.0) 44 (7.1) 57 (25.4) 3.551 (2.328-5.416) < 0.0001 18 (25.3) 3.538 (1.940-6.453) 0.0001
non-HPV STDs 255 (30.4) 193 (31.4) 62 (27.7) 0.8806 (0.6365-1.218) 0.4649 20 (28.2) 0.8962 (0.5317-1.510) 0.7950
C. trachomatis 86 (10.3) 61 (9.9) 25 (11.2) 1.123 (0.6882-1.834) 0.7019 06 (8.4) 0.8506 (0.3549-2.039) 0.8352
N. gonorrhoeae 39 (4.7) 24 (3.9) 15 (6.7) 1.713 (0.8827-3.325) 0.1372 06 (8.4) 2.162 (0.8548-5.468) 0.1229
M. genitalium 29 (3.5) 26 (4.2) 3 (1.3) 0.3163 (0.09477-1.055) 0.0529 01 (1.4) 0.3326 (0.04444-2.489) 0.5087
T. vaginallis 97 (11.6) 78 (12.7) 19 (8.5) 0.6677 (0.3952-1.128) 0.1430 08 (11.3) 0.8870 (0.4114-1.912) 0.8525
HSV-1 9 (1.1) 8 (1.3) 1 (0.4) 0.3426 (0.04259-2.756) 0.4579 00 (0.0) 0.5056 (0.2885-8.858) 1.0000
HSV-2 33 (3.9) 20 (3.3) 13 (5.8) 1.782 (0.8716-3.642) 0.1138 02 (2.8) 0.8648 (0.1979-3.778) 1.0000
T. pallidum 14 (1.7) 13 (2.1) 1 (0.4) 0.2109 (0.02741-1.622) 0.1296 00 (0.0) 0.3183 (0.01871-5.415) 0.3821

NILM, negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy; ≥ ASC-US, atypical glandular cells (AGC), squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL) of low (LSIL) or high (HSIL) grade, and atypical squamous cells (ASC) of undetermined significance (ASC-US) or not possible exclude HSIL (ASC-H); RR (95% CI), crude odds ratio (relative risk) with 95% confidence interval; HPV-DNA, human Papillomavirus deoxyribonucleic acid; HR-HPV, high-risk HPV; HSV, herpes simplex virus. non-HPV STDs: Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Mycoplasma genitalium, Trichomonas vaginalis, herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1, HSV-2 and Treponema pallidum. non-HPV STDs co-infections: infections with two or more non-STD pathogens in the same sample. P value < 0.05 was considered significant.