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High prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infections and high frequency of multiple HPV genotypes in human immunodeficiency virus-infected women in Brazil.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2002
Levi José E, Kleter Bernhard, Quint Wim G V, Fink Maria C S, Canto Cynthia L M, Matsubara Regina, Linhares Iara, Segurado Aluísio, Vanderborght Bart, Neto José Eluf, Van Doorn Leen-Jan
Abstract excerpt
A group of 208 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected women in Brazil were studied for the presence of human papillomavirus with the general SPF(10) PCR primer set. Virtually all (98%) women were found positive for human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA. Genotyping by the reverse hybridization line probe assay (HPV-LiPA) revealed a high prevalence of multiple genotypes (78.9% of the cases), with an average of 3.1...
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