The penile microbiota of Black South African men: relationship with human papillomavirus and HIV infection

BMC Microbiology

Table 4 Association of selected community state types with prevalent HPV, HR-HPV, and HIV infections

CST	HPV prevalence (% (n/N))	OR (95% CI) (p-value^#)	HR-HPV prevalence (% (n/N))	OR (95% CI) (p-value^#)	HIV prevalence (% (n/N))	OR (95% CI) (p-value^#)
CST-1	51.2 (65/127)	Ref	36.2 (46/127)	Ref	33.9 (43/127)	Ref
CST-2	54.5 (12/22)	1.1 (0.5–2.8) 0.821	54.5 (12/22)	2.1 (0.8–5.3) 0.154	40.9 (9/22)	1.4 (0.5–3.4) 0.629
CST-3	57.1 (12/21)	1.3 (0.5–3.2) 0.645	42.9 (9/21)	1.3 (0.5–3.4) 0.629	19.0 (4/21)	0.5 (0.1–1.5) 0.213
CST-5	70.5 (31/44)	2.3 (1.1–4.7) 0.034	61.4 (27/44)	2.8 (1.4–5.7) 0.005	50.0 (22/44)	2.0 (1.0–3.9) 0.072

Abbreviations: CST Community state type, HPV Human papillomavirus, HR-HPV High-risk human papillomavirus, HIV Human immunodeficiency virus, OD Odds ratio, CI Confidence interval, Ref Reference
^#p-values were computed using Fisher’s exact test. Significant p-values (< 0.05) are shown in bold

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