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Can you be reinfected if you and your partner both have hpv?

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Dr. M. Taslimi answered

Specializes in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Yes, you can: Hpv has numerus strains; some cause cancer. A person can get more than one type of hpv. Get regular pap smears form your doctor.

Answered 11/28/2017

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Not really: This does not ping pong back and forth like a strep throat might. Once you and your partner share the same strain of HPV, it would clear the primary infection over time ( by developing antibodies) but could stay in your system forever & reactivate. You could pass it to an uninfected person but not to someone who has had the strain.

Answered 11/28/2017

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Possibility mayexist: There are several dozens of benign HPV's and dozens of high-risk-oncogenic HPV's. If you and or your partner were to acquire a new strain or a new subtype of the human papilloma virus against which neither of you have immunity (the right antibodies) there is a theoretical and perhaps real possibility that you could infect (seemingly"reinfect") each other with this new HPV.

Answered 6/11/2017

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