Comparison of a one-step and a two-step polymerase chain reaction with degenerate general primers in a population-based study of human papillomavirus infection in young Swedish women

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The prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in cervical cell scrapes from young women was determined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) by using general primer pairs localized within the L1 region. With a one-step general PCR, 5.9% (35 of 590) of young women in a population-based study were found to contain HPV DNA. The proportion of HPV-positive women increased with age, from 1.4% (1 of 69) among...

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