HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION IN CERVICAL BIOPSIES FROM NORWEGIAN GYNECOLOGICAL INPATIENTS

Authors
JENKINS A KRISTIANSEN E ASK E SERVOLD T CHRISTENSEN A KRISTIANSEN BE
Citation
A. Jenkins et al., HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION IN CERVICAL BIOPSIES FROM NORWEGIAN GYNECOLOGICAL INPATIENTS, APMIS. Acta pathologica, microbiologica et immunologica Scandinavica, 104(1), 1996, pp. 30-34
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology,Microbiology,Immunology
Journal title
APMIS. Acta pathologica, microbiologica et immunologica Scandinavica → ACNP
ISSN journal
09034641
Volume
104
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
30 - 34
Database
ISI
SICI code
0903-4641(1996)104:1<30:HPIICB>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Southern blotting were used to ass ess the prevalence of HPV in cervical biopsies of 100 women who were t reated at the gynecology department of Telemark Central Hospital for n on-cancerous conditions. Nine (9%) of the biopsies were HPV positive. Four (4%) were of HPV type 18, one (1%) was HPV11 positive, and four c ontained different unrecognized HPV types (HPVX). HPV16 was not detect ed.