Article
Human papillomavirus infections in Mexican women with normal cytology, precancerous lesions, and cervical cancer: type-specific prevalence and HPV coinfections.
Journal of medical virology - 1 May 2015
Aguilar-Lemarroy Adriana, Vallejo-Ruiz Verónica, Cortés-Gutiérrez Elva I, Salgado-Bernabé Manuel Eduardo, Ramos-González Norma Patricia, Ortega-Cervantes Laura, Arias-Flores Rafael, Medina-Díaz Irma M, Hernández-Garza Fernando, Santos-López Gerardo, Piña-Sánchez Patricia
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence and genotype distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) provides the basis for designing HPV prevention programs. The prevalence rates of type-specific HPV and coinfections in samples of Mexican women were investigated in 822 women aged 18-87 years. HPV detection was performed usin...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Coinfection
- Female
- Genotype
- Genotyping Techniques
- Humans
- Mexico
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Papillomaviridae