Article
Human papillomavirus, human immunodeficiency virus, and cervical cancer: newly recognized associations?
Infectious agents and disease - 1 Dec 1992
Vernon S D, Icenogle J P, Johnson P R, Reeves W C
Abstract excerpt
There are now sufficient data to conclude that women infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have an increased risk of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and preinvasive stages of cervical cancer. This association is not completely due to immunosuppression. It is likely that HPV pathogenesis is altered in HIV-infected women. Preinvasive cervical neoplasia likely occurs more frequently in HIV-infected...
Topics
- AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
- Female
- Genotype
- HIV Infections
- Humans
- Mucous Membrane
- Papillomaviridae
- Papillomavirus Infections
- United States
- Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
- Virus Replication
