Genital human papillomaviruses. Studies of their occurrence, type spectrum and expression.
Popular Abstract in Swedish Vårtor (skivepitelpapillom) i hud eller slemhinna orsakas av papillomvirus. Kunskapen om detta virus var länge ganska liten eftersom det inte går att odla i cellkulturer, men med molekylärbiologins framsteg har förståelsen ökats. Varje djurart har sina egna papillomvirus och genom att jämföra nukleinsyrasekvenserna i DNA-kedjan hos olika virusisolat har man identifieratThe occurrence of genital human papillomavirus infection was determined in different categories of patients by means of PCR. In high proportion of young women attending an adolescent clinic, the presence of HPV DNA was demonstrated in simultaneously urethral and cervical samples, suggesting that genital HPV infections are often multifocal. Multiple HPV types were demonstrated in about half of the
