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Identification of HPV16 Lineages in South African and Mozambican Women with Normal and Abnormal Cervical Cytology.
Viruses - 18 Aug 2024
Maueia Cremildo, Carulei Olivia, Murahwa Alltalents T, Taku Ongeziwe, Manjate Alice, Mussá Tufária, Williamson Anna-Lise
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BACKGROUND: Human papillomavirus 16 (HPV16) is an oncogenic virus responsible for the majority of invasive cervical cancer cases worldwide. Due to genetic modifications, some variants are more oncogenic than others. We analysed the HPV16 phylogeny in HPV16-positive cervical Desoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) samples collected from South African and Mozambican women to detect the circulating lineages. METHODS:...
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