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Vaginal microbiome community state types and high-risk human papillomaviruses in cervical precancer and cancer in North-central Nigeria
2022-12-29
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<h4>Background: </h4> High risk human papillomaviruses (HR-HPV) have a causal role in cervical oncogenesis, and HIV-mediated immune suppression allows HR-HPV to persist. We studied whether vaginal microbiome community state types (CSTs) are associated with high-grade precancer and/or invasive cervical cancer (HSIL/ICC). <h4>Methods: </h4> This was a cross-sectional study of adult women with cervical cancer screen...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 76720dcf-49b5-599f-b228-72f4f57818d2
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2353710/v1
