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Prevalence of human papillomavirus type 16 and its variants in abnormal squamous cervical cells in Northeast Thailand.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Mar 2009
Chopjitt Peechanika, Ekalaksananan Tipaya, Pientong Chamsai, Kongyingyoes Bunkerd, Kleebkaow Pilaiwan, Charoensri Nicha
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OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence of HPV, HPV16, and HPV16 variants in scraped cervical cells cytologically diagnosed as normal cervical cell and in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia II-III and squamous cervical carcinoma in Northeast Thailand. METHODS: All samples were subjected to PCR using consensus GP5+/GP6+ primers. HPV16 was genotyped by Southern blot...
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