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Prevalence and genotype identification of human papillomavirus in women undergoing voluntary cervical cancer screening in Molise, central Italy.
Cancer epidemiology - 1 Apr 2010
Ripabelli Giancarlo, Grasso Guido M, Del Riccio Ilenia, Tamburro Manuela, Sammarco Michela L
Abstract excerpt
We examined the prevalence of HR- and LR-HPV by Linear Array genotyping test in 299 women aged 18-63 years who consecutively visited Molise Region main hospitals for routine Pap smear between February and August 2008. Ninety women were positive for any HPV (30.1%), and 66 for any HR-HPV (22.1%). The most prevalent HR-HPV types were HPV 16 (22.2% of all women with HPV infection), HPV 53 (14.4%), and HPV 66...
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