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Prevalence and distribution of human papillomavirus infection in Korean women as determined by restriction fragment mass polymorphism assay.
Journal of Korean medical science - 1 Sept 2012
Lee Eun Hee, Um Tae Hyun, Chi Hyun-Sook, Hong Young-Joon, Cha Young Joo
Abstract excerpt
The development of a prophylactic vaccine that targets human papillomaviruses (HPV) 6, 11, 16, and 18 to prevent cervical cancer has increased interest in the ethnic and geographical distributions of HPV genotypes. We investigated HPV prevalence and type distribution by restriction fragment mass polymorphism (RFMP) testing a total of 60,775 specimens (aged 18-79 yr, median 44) taken from liquid-based cytology....
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