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Prevalence of Penile Human Papillomavirus DNA in Husbands of Women with and without Cervical Neoplasia: A Study in Spain and Colombia
1 Aug 1997
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the role of men in cervical cancer, 816 husbands of women enrolled in four case-control studies of cervical neoplasia in populations at high (Colombia) and low (Spain) risk for cervical cancer were interviewed. Exfoliated cells from the penis were obtained and analyzed by polymerase chain reaction for the presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA. Penile HPV DNA prevalences were higher in husbands...
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