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Members of the human papillomavirus type 18 family (alpha‐7 species) share a common association with adenocarcinoma of the cervix
4 Dec 2007
Abstract excerpt
Alpha-papillomaviruses share a tropism for the mucosal epithelium of the human genital tract, and can be classified into 15 species or clades, based upon phylogenetic similarity.1, 2 However, the extent to which this phylogenetic grouping denotes shared biological function is unclear. There is some evidence that alpha species differ in their tissue-specific tropism, such as the alpha-3 and -15 species which...
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