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Human papillomavirus type 16 in infants: use of DNA sequence analyses to determine the source of infection.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jun 1996
Kaye J N, Starkey W G, Kell B, Biswas C, Raju K S, Best J M, Cason J
Abstract excerpt
Perinatal transmission of human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) and persistence of virus DNA in infants until 6 months of age has been described. To confirm the origin of infant infections as maternal, we determined the nucleotide sequence of the upstream regulatory region (URR; bp 7540 to 157) of HPV-16 in samples from 13 HPV-16 DNA-positive mothers and their infants at 6 weeks and 2 years of age. Identical...
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