Phylogenetic Classification of Human Papillomaviruses: Correlation With Clinical Manifestations

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Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are a heterogeneous group of small dsDNA viruses which cause a variety of proliferative epithelial lesions at specific anatomical sites. Although more than 65 different virus types have been cloned and characterized, no uniform classification system exists. In order to classify HPV DNA types, phylogenetic trees were constructed based on nucleotide sequence alignments using parsimony...

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