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Human papillomaviruses and skin cancer.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2014
Smola Sigrun
Abstract excerpt
Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) infect squamous epithelia and can induce hyperproliferative lesions. More than 120 different HPV types have been characterized and classified into five different genera. While mucosal high-risk HPVs have a well-established causal role in anogenital carcinogenesis, the biology of cutaneous HPVs is less well understood. The clinical relevance of genus beta-PV infection has clearly been...
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