Background: Warts are considered the foremost common infectious diseases affecting epidermal keratinocytes, causative agent is human papilloma virus (HPV). Diagnosis usually can be confirmed depending on both clinical features and family history. Although these viruses create no acute signs or symptoms, they induce slow growth of lesions that remain for a long period. Aim: This study aims to as...

Objectives and relationship to conference themes Verrucae are a common, infectious and sometimes painful problem. The optimal treatment for verrucae is unclear due to a lack of high quality randomised controlled trials (RCTs). The primary objective of the EVERT trial is to compare the clinical effectiveness of two common treatments for verrucae: cryotherapy using liquid nitrogen delivered by a ...

BACKGROUND Warts are very common in primary schoolchildren. However, knowledge on wart epidemiology and causes of wart transmission is scarce. OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of warts in primary schoolchildren and to examine the relation with environmental factors in order to provide direction for well-founded recommendations on wart prevention. METHODS In this cross-sectional study,...

Background: Non-genital warts are a very common and benign skin disease caused by low-risk Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection. Common warts, flat plantar clinical manifestations of non-genital many different types HPV. Data on the prevalence or incidence in Bali is still limited. Therefore, it important to identify as reference for conducting further studies cases. This research studied inci...

INTRODUCTION This study aims to determine the epidemiology of viral warts in children seen at a tertiary referral centre and the treatments used. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study of viral warts in children aged 12 years and below seen at the National Skin Centre in the year 2000. RESULTS There were 302 cases of viral warts, 187 (61.9%) in boys and 115 (38.1%) in girls. Th...

In a large health insurance database in Germany, incidence of anogenital warts among 15- to 19-year-old females decreased from 316/100,000 person-years in 2007 to 242 in 2008 (23% reduction, P = 0.0001). The decrease started between the first and second quarter of 2007 (human papillomavirus vaccination was introduced in March 2007).

A 10% random sample of all bathers at a public swimming bath were examined for tinea pedis and verruca.The overall incidence of tinea pedis was 8.5% and of verruca 4.8%. The incidence of tinea pedis in 205 male adults was 21.5%, in 288 boys 6.3%, in 60 adult females 3.3%, and in 220 girls 0.9%. The incidence of verruca in juveniles ranged from 4.2% in boys to 10.5% in girls.It was clear that bo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate if new imiquimod formulations using a shorter treatment duration are safe and efficacious to treat anogenital warts. METHODS In two studies 534 women ≥12 years of age (mean 33.4) with 2-30 warts (mean 7.9) and total wart area ≥10 mm(2) (mean 166.3) were randomized (1:2:2) to placebo (106), imiquimod 2.5% (212) or 3.75% (216) creams applied once daily until complete clear...

Random samples of the weekly entry of bathers to a swimming pool were examined for tinea pedis and verruca before and at intervals after the supply of individual sachets of foot powder to all bathers.Over three and a half years the overall incidence of tinea pedis decreased from 8.5% to 2.1%, and in adult males it decreased from 21.5% to 6.9%. The incidence of infection with Trichophyton mentag...

To cite: Mestre T, Marques Pinto G. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014204787 DESCRIPTION The human papillomavirus (HPV) can infect the skin and mucous membranes. Common warts, filiform warts, epidermodysplasia verruciformis, mosaic warts and plantar warts represent clinical manifestations of infection with HPV. Giant warts in the hands are very r...