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| Carvalho,Maria Odete O.; Almeida,Ricardo W.; Leite,Fátima M. S.; Fellows,Ilza B.; Teixeira,Mariza H.; Oliveira,Ledy H. S.; Cavalcanti,Silvia M. B.. |
| Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the main cause of cervical cancers and cervical intraepithelial neoplasias (CIN) worldwide. Consequently, it would be useful to evaluate HPV testing to screen for cervical cancer. Recently developed, the second-generation Hybrid Capture (HCA II) test is a non-radioactive, relatively rapid, liquid hybridization assay designed to detect 18 HPV types, divided into high and low-risk groups. We evaluated 1055 women for HPV infection with the HCA II test. Five hundred and ten (48.3%) of these women had HPV infection; 60 (11.8%) had low cancer-risk HPV DNA; 269 (52.7%) had high-risk HPV types and 181 (35.5%) had both groups. Hence, 450 women (88.2%) in this HPV-infected group had at least one high risk HPV type, and were... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: HPV; SIL; Cancer; Hybrid capture. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702003000200004 |
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