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Twenty two patients referred to a district colposcopy clinic because of an abnormal cervical cytology report or a suspicious cervix and found to have a cervical epithelial abnormality were studied. The techniques of cytology, histology, immunohistochemistry, and DNA-DNA hybridisation were used to detect infection by human papillomavirus. Using an indirect immunoalkaline phosphatase technique hu...

As a contribution to the public health authorities in planning prophylactic and therapeutic vaccine strategies, we describe the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) types in women presenting abnormal cytological results in Pap smear screening tests in the Federal District, Central Brazil. We studied 129 cervical scraping samples from women whose cytological tests showed either pre-neoplasti...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) type-specific distribution was evaluated in genital samples collected from 654 women from the South of Italy undergoing voluntary screening and correlated with cyto-histological abnormalities. HPV DNA was detected in 45.9% of the samples, 41.7% of which had multiple infection and 89.0% had high-risk HPV infection. The prevalence of HPV infection and the rate of multip...

Cancer of the uterine cervix is the 5th most deadly type of female cancer [1]. It is clearly demonstrated that HPV infection is the necessary, but not the sufficient cause of most cervical cancers [2]. The association between cancer of the uterine cervix and HPV is unique because no other human cancer is dependent on a single infectious factor for its development [3]. Worldwide, HPV types 16 an...

Background, In this study, we sought to determine the prevalence, types, and maternal-fetal transmission of HPV in pregnant women in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Results, The overall cervical HPV-DNA positivity rate among pregnant women was 13.44% (422/3139). The most frequently detected HPV types in mothers were HPV-16 (29.62%, 125/422), HPV-18 (14.69%, 62/422), and HPV-58 (14.22%, 60/422). The ...

This study was designed to investigate and compare the HPV prevalence, genotypes distribution and associated risk factors in rural and urban women living in Xishuang Banna district, in the province of Yunnan. A total of 177 and 190 women from rural and urban areas were engaged, respectively. HPV DNA was amplified using the L1 consensus primers system (MY09/11 and GP5/6) and HPV GenoArray test w...

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for the development of cervical neoplasia.  Infection with human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) is a major risk factor for the development of cervical cancer. The virus encodes three oncoproteins (E5, E6 and E7), of which, the E7 oncoprotein is the major protein involved in cell immortalization and transformation o...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA has been identified in esophageal carcinomas. However, the incidence of HPV varies significantly in different geographical locations. In this study, neoplasms from Turkmen Sahra, a region in Golestan province in northeast part of Iran, with a high incidence of squamous cell carcinoma were analyzed for the presence of HPV DNA. Turkmen Sahra is located in the cancer...