학술논문
A high prevalence of human papillomavirus 16 and 18 co-infections in cervical biopsies from southern Brazil
Document Type
other
Author
Source
Brazilian Journal of Microbiology. January 2018 49(1)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
1517-8382
Abstract
HPV types 16 and 18 were studied in paraffin-fixed cervical biopsy collected in southern Brazil. HPV 16, HPV 18 and co-infection HPV 16/18 were identified in 10/57 (17.5%), 4/57 (7%) and in 43/57 (75.4%) samples, respectively. Southern Brazil has one of the highest prevalence rates of HPV 16/18 reported.