Prevalence of human papillomavirus genotypes in cervical cancer in Maiduguri, Nigeria.

doi:10.11604/pamj.2019.33.284.18338

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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 cervica...

Topics

DNA, Viral
Female
Genotype
Humans
Nigeria
Papillomaviridae
Papillomavirus Infections
Prevalence
Retrospective Studies
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

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