Article
Detection of High-Risk Human Papillomaviruses in the Prevention of Cervical Cancer in India.
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP - 1 Jan 2015
Baskaran Krishnan, Kumar P Kranthi, Karunanithi Santha, Sethupathy Subramanian, Thamaraiselvi B, Swaruparani S
Abstract excerpt
Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are small, non-enveloped, double-stranded DNA viruses that infect epithelial tissues. Specific genotypes of human papillomavirus are the single most common etiological agents of cervical intraepithelial lesions and cervical cancer. Cervical cancer usually arises at squamous metaplastic epithelium of transformation zone (TZ) of the cervix featuring infection with one or more oncogenic...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
