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Human papilloma virus risk factors for infection and genotype distribution in aboriginal women from Northern Argentina.
Medicina - 1 Jan 2012
Deluca Gerardo D, Basiletti Jorge, González Joaquín V, Díaz Vásquez Nicolás, Lucero Raúl H, Picconi María A
Abstract excerpt
The mortality rate for cervical cancer (CC) in Northern Argentina is three times higher than the average for the country (7.8 deaths/100,000 women). We determined the prevalence and genotype distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) in 227 sexually active women of the native Pilagá community in Formosa, Argentina. We also conducted an HPV-16 variant analysis and studied several community factors that might play...
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