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Detection of persistent high risk human papillomavirus infections with hybrid capture II and SPF10/LiPA.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Apr 2005
Perrons Chris, Jelley Rosanne, Kleter Bernhard, Quint Wim, Brink Nicola
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BACKGROUND: HPV infection in young women is common. However only a certain number of HPV genotypes are oncogenic. It is necessary for high risk HPV infection to persist at the cervix for a considerable time before oncogenesis occurs. OBJECTIVES: To look for persistence of high risk HPV in women attending a colposcopy clinic. Two DNA detection methods were used and the results compared to determine the rates of...
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