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The Frequency and Typing of HPV Virus Among Suspected Women Referred to HPV Genotyping Test in Mazandaran, Northern Iran.
Clinical laboratory - 1 Jul 2022
Hosseini Elaheh, Yaghoubian S Sahar, Hashemi-Soteh S M Bagher
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BACKGROUND: Human papilloma viruses are a group of the Papillomaviridae family (ds DNA viruses), which infect basal epithelial cells. So far, 228 types of HPV have been identified, in which about 40 types infect the genital mucosa. In Iran, cervical cancer has been reported as the second most common malignancy in women which is approximately 8.8% of all cancers in women. HPV genotypes are classified as high-risk...
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