Epidemiology of Anogenital Human Papillomavirus Infections
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Human papillomavirus genotypes in 108 patients with anogenital warts in a sexually transmitted disease clinic in Tehran
Background and Objective: Genital warts, the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD), are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). Few studies have been performed on Iranian women with genital warts or cervix cancer but there isno documented data about genital warts and HPV genotyping in Iranian men. In this study, we determined HPV genotypesin 108 male and females with anogenital warts in ...
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تاریخ انتشار 2017