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Distribution of 37 mucosotropic HPV types in women with cytologically normal cervical smears: the age-related patterns for high-risk and low-risk types.
International journal of cancer - 15 Jul 2000
Jacobs M V, Walboomers J M, Snijders P J, Voorhorst F J, Verheijen R H, Fransen-Daalmeijer N, Meijer C J
Abstract excerpt
Before guidelines can be set for the use of high-risk human papillomavirus (HR HPV) testing in cervical cancer screening and vaccine preparation, age-related prevalence of HR HPV types in cytologically normal smears has to be known. Therefore, in a cross-sectional study the prevalence of 37 different HPV genotypes and putatively unidentified HPV types was determined in 3,305 cytologically normal cervical smears...
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