In Northern Ireland in 1984 anogenital warts were diagnosed in 592 (352 male, 240 female) genitourinary medicine clinic attenders. Of these patients, 561 were heterosexual, 28 homosexual and three male bisexual. In the male patients 290 had penile warts, 67 meatal warts, 59 perianal warts, 25 anal canal warts and five rectal warts. In the female patients, 193 had vulval warts, 27 vaginal warts,...

A 55-year-old man, nonsmoker, with a HIV-positive history came to our attention in February 2017. He was on treatment with StribildTM, 1 capsule daily (150 mg elvitegravir, 150 mg cobicistat, 200 mg emtricitabine, and 245 mg tenofovir disoproxil). The CD4+/CD8+ cellular count was 326/µL (normal values: 404-1,612); the CD3+/CD8+ cellular count was 819/µL (normal values: 220-1,219). The CD4/CD8 r...

Zinc might strengthen our immune systems and fortify our bones, but it also helps a cancer-causing skin virus take hold, according to Lazarczyk et al. (page 35). Most people harbor within their skin a human papillomavirus (HPV) subtype called HPV EV. Although this virus is usually harmless, certain infected individuals develop wart-like skin lesions that eventually grow into tumors. These rare,...

Human papilloma viruses (HPV) have been identified as the cause of cutaneous and genital warts. Furthermore, HPV DNA can also be detected in certain malignant epithelial tumors such as cervical carcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell cancer. HPV infections in children, particularly when occurring as condylomata acuminata, present a difficult and often puzzling problem. The modes of viral transmis...

Cervical cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in Thai woman. The incidence of new cases per years is 9999 and mortality is about 50% (Munoz, 2000). The etiology of this cancer is Human papillomavirus (HPV). High grade cervical lesion is precancerous lesion of cervical cancer that has abnormal tissue related to persistent HPV infection and can be developed to cervical cancer (Walboome...

We report a 27-year-old hemophilic male who was HIV positive and under Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) along with wart lesions. When IMOD therapy started concurrently with HAART, the skin lesions disappeared.

The recent report by Bivins (1) on the successful cultivation of the wart agent on the chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) of embryonated hen's eggs and the report by Strauss, Bunting and Melnick (2) on the electron microscopy of elementary virus bodies in wart tissue prompted the undertaking of similar and extended experiments in this laboratory. Felsher (3) had ground up 3 warts in saline and had ...

INTRODUCTION Cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen is an effective, safe and convenient form of treatment for plantar warts. EMLA® cream (eutectic mixture of lidocaine 2.5% and prilocaine 2.5%) is a topical local anaesthetic agent that has proven to be effective and well tolerated in the relief of pain associated with various minor interventions in numerous clinical settings. MATERIALS AND METHODS...