Prof. Nosrat Safaeian from Sari, Australia received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Stewardship from the Iranian Society for Range Management at the 5th National Conference held in Boroujerd, Lorestan, Iran. He was born in Khorramabad and graduated in Ecology and Range Management from Montpellier, Science and Technique University, French in 1979.  I am honoured to introduce Prof. Nosrat S...

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We read with interest the article by Safaeian and colleagues (1). Using data from the Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance/Low-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions Triage Study (ALTS), they show that diagnosis of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 or worse (CIN3+) due to human papillomavirus (HPV)-18 is delayed compared with HPV16 lesions. It has been suggested that th...

Scientists do not know precisely which elements of the immune system are important in preventing or resolving human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in unvaccinated women. HPV has a battery of immune-evasion mechanisms that include hiding within the host mucosal cells, lowlevel production of late (L) proteins, and inhibition of innate immunity and cellmediated response by early proteins [1]. HPV...