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Prevalence of human papillomavirus genotypes in cervical cancer in Maiduguri, Nigeria.
The Pan African medical journal - 1 Jan 2019
Kabir Abba, Bukar Mwajim, Nggada Haruna Asura, Rann Harun Bakari, Gidado Abubakar, Musa Alhaji Bukar
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INTRODUCTION: Cervical cancer is the commonest gynaecological malignancy and the second most common cancer among women worldwide. Several epidemiological, clinical and molecular studies have strongly implicated oncogenic high-risk human papillomavirus infection in the aetiopathogenesis of cervical cancer. The objectives of this study were to determine the cervical HPV prevalence and genotype distribution in...
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