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Prevalence of human papillomavirus infection and genotype distribution among high-risk Korean women for prospecting the strategy of vaccine development.
Virology journal - 25 Aug 2010
Rhee Jee Eun, Shin Mi Yeong, Kim Choong Mo, Kee Hye Young, Chung Jae Keun, Min Sang-Kee, Kim Seong-Joon, Jang Dai-Ho, Kim Sung Soon, Choi Byeong-Sun
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and the distribution of high-risk HPV genotypes among 2,308 high-risk Korean women to predict how much the current prophylactic HPV vaccines might affect the prevention of cervical cancer in Korea. HPV DNA was detected in 939 women (40.7%) but only one-third of women were positive for HPV-16 and/or HPV-18, the genotypes used for developing the...
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