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Genotype-specific clearance of genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infections among mothers in the Finnish family HPV study.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2010
Louvanto Karolina, Syrjänen Kari J, Rintala Marjut A M, Grénman Seija E, Syrjänen Stina M
Abstract excerpt
The majority of cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in young women are transient, but whether the clearance differs among different HPV genotypes and the different factors predicting genotype-specific clearance are partly unknown. In the Finnish Family HPV Study, 131 of 252 women (mean age, 25.5 years) cleared their infection during the prospective follow-up of 6 years (median, 62.4 months; range, 1.6...
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