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Incident cervical infections with high- and low-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infections among mothers in the prospective Finnish Family HPV Study.
BMC infectious diseases - 22 Jun 2011
Louvanto Karolina, Rintala Marjut A, Syrjänen Kari J, Grénman Seija E, Syrjänen Stina M
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BACKGROUND: The knowledge on type specificity and factors that increase or decrease the risk of incident HPV-infections is important to better understand the dynamics of HPV-infections. METHODS: A series of 329 pregnant women were enrolled in Finnish Family HPV Study at 3rd trimester of pregnancy and followed-up for 6 years, during which 203 baseline HPV-negative women acquired incident HPV infection. Incidence...
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