abstract aims: a few studies concentrate on the level of knowledge of hpv. this study was conducted to evaluate the level of knowledge about hpv, its risk factors, and its relation with cervical cancer in women of kashan city, iran. instrument & methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in january 2015 in the population of the women of kashan city, iran, and 200 persons were...

background and objective: human papillomavirus (hpv) is one of the possible etiologic factors  in development of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (escc). in this study we aimed to study the  role of hpv in escc. patients and methods:in this study, 140 cases of escc were analyzed for the hpv dna by  polymerase chain reaction (pcr) using gp5+/gp6+ primers for l1 open reading frame (orf) to  am...

Background and Objective: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the possible etiologic factors  in development of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). In this study we aimed to study the  role of HPV in ESCC. Patients and Methods:In this study, 140 cases of ESCC were analyzed for the HPV DNA by  polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using GP5+/GP6+ primers for L1 open reading frame (ORF) to  am...

background: this study was performed to compare the prevalence of hpv infection and high risk hpv genotypes [16, 18] between monogamous and polygamous women, in zabol, iran. methods:   this cross sectional study was conducted in zabol in 2006 - 2007. two hundred sixty five married women attend­ing the gynecology clinic for cervical disease screening entered to this study. one hundred sixty two ...

The rate of cervical cancer in Asians is deferent, based on the risk factors affecting and the rate of papiloma virus infection among females. Cervical cancer is one of the important cancers between Iranian women. In the present study the rate of cervical neoplasia was detected in Isfahan and some risk factors affecting the incidence of cervical cancer was analyzed. The human papiloma virus inf...

Background and Aim: Determination of HPV genotypes in cervical lesions is essential in screening programs and the impact of current HPV vaccines. Therefore, we investigated the frequency of various HPV genotypes among different grades of cervical lesions. Materials and Methods: In total, 101 biopsy samples of different grades of cervical lesions were collected. Extracted DNA was subjected to P...

This study evaluated the clinical performance of cobas 4800 HPV Test (Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, CA, USA) for high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) testing with individual HPV-16/HPV-18 genotyping in women 21 years or older atypical squamous cells undetermined significance (ASCUS). Women (N = 47,208) were recruited United States during routine screening, and liquid-based cytology pe...

Persistent high-risk (HR) human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is an essential risk factor for cervical carcinoma and precancerous lesion. There are differences in HPV distribution among different countries, regions ethnic groups. The aim of this research was to reveal the epidemiological characteristics Chongqing, China. In study, 13,788 women aged 18 78 were screened 23 genotypes by PCR-rever...

conclusions human papillomavirus 16 as a high risk hpv was found to have the highest frequency among patients with anogenital warts. results out of 54 samples, 46 (85.18%) cases showed positive results for hpv dna. a total of 26 (56.6%) samples were males and 20 (43.4%) females while eight (14.81%) showed hpv negative results. overall, 37 (80%) patients had multiple sexual partners, and nine (2...

background: cervical cancer is one of the most important and commonly diagnosed types of cancer in females. there are different causes of cervical cancer, amongst which recurrent and persistent infection with hpv types 16 and 18 are the most renowned ones. these genotypes are the main factors in 99 % of cases in developed countries and 70 % in developing ones. due to the importance of these vir...