Article
Human papillomavirus sequencing reveals its usefulness for the management of HIV-infected women at risk for developing cervical cancer.
The journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research - 1 Jun 2021
Piyathilake Chandrika J, Kumar Ranjit, Crowley Michael R, Badiga Suguna, Burkholder Greer A
Abstract excerpt
AIM: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is able to describe the composition of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) as percent (%) reads rather than positive/negative results. Therefore, we used this unique approach to assess the prevalence of cervical HPVs of HIV infected (HIV+) in order to understand the determinants of being infected with higher % reads of high risk (HR)-HPVs and cervical abnormalities of atypical...
Topics
- Alphapapillomavirus
- Female
- Genotype
- HIV Infections
- Human papillomavirus 16
- Human papillomavirus 18
- Humans
- Papillomaviridae
- Papillomavirus Infections
- Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
