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Profile of viral load, integration, and E2 gene disruption of HPV58 in normal cervix and cervical neoplasia.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Sept 2007
Chan Paul K S, Cheung Jo L K, Cheung Tak-Hong, Lo Keith W K, Yim So-Fan, Siu Shing-Shun N, Tang Julian W
Abstract excerpt
The clinical utility of viral-load and integration status of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection remains uncertain. We examined 75 women infected with HPV58, a worldwide rare type found to be prevalent in cervical cancers in eastern Asia. Viral load was significantly higher for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) 1/2, but those for a normal control group and for CIN 3 or cancer overlapped substantially. A...
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