Study of Oral Papillomavirus In Teens and Twenties (SPITT)

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: STD

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00994019

2422

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recently human papillomavirus (HPV) has been recognized to cause some oropharyngeal (tonsil) cancer. But very little is known about oral HPV infection and risk factors. This study will evaluate how common oral HPV infection is, what sexual behaviors are associated with risk for infection, and how long infections tend to last.

Full description

18-25 year old individuals are being recruited from STD clinics in Baltimore County and followed every three months for this study.

Enrollment: 550 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 26 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 -26 years

Exclusion criteria

• Never received HPV vaccine (Gardasil or Cervarix)