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Key considerations and current perspectives of epidemiological studies on human papillomavirus persistence, the intermediate phenotype to cervical cancer.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Apr 2013
Sudenga S L, Shrestha S
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Persistent infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) causes essentially all precancerous cervical lesions and cervical cancer in females and thus is an important intermediate phenotype to cervical cancer. A majority of infected individuals naturally clear HPV viral infection, but the virus persists in a subset of infected hosts and the mechanism for this differential outcome is not well described. Most of the...
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