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Related Coverage. The questionnaire also asked about factors that may affect detection, including how long prior to specimen collection they last ate, drank or brushed their teeth. Only the number of partners more than a year ago was significantly associated with HPV detection, and only for tongue-kissing and oral-penile sex Table 3. However, some HPV infections can persist. A subset of 37 HIV positive men had anal swabs in a subsequent study of anal cancer screening, performed 16 months after this study. This was done for each of the sexual practices: tongue-kissing, oral-penile sex and oral-anal sex.