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Validity of vaginal testing in detecting human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Dec 2000
Finan R R, Irani-Hakime N, Tamim H, Almawi W Y
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to assess the validity and usefulness of vaginal scrapes in detecting cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The study group comprised 23 women tested positive and 28 women tested negative for cervical HPV DNA by PCR, and confirmed by histopathology. At the time of specimen collection, both vaginal and endocervical scrapes were taken from these...
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