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| Baloch,Zulqarnain; Yasmeen,Nafeesa; Li,Yuanyue; Ma,Ke; Wu,Xiaomei; Yang,Shi-hua; Xia,Xueshan. |
| ABSTRACT Background: Dai is a major Chinese ethnic minority group residing in rural areas of the southern part of Yunnan. However, no data exist on the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence and genotype distribution among Dai women. Method: A total of 793 participants (Dai = 324, Han = 251, other ethnic = 218) were included in this study. PCR was performed to detect the HPV-positive samples, and genotyping was performed with an HPV Geno-Array. Result: The overall HPV prevalence was very low among Dai women compared to the others. The prevalence of high-risk-HPV infections was significantly higher (p = 0.001) among other ethnic women (22.0%) than that among Han (13.1%) and Dai women (7.1%). The overall HPV, high-risk-HPV, single and multiple infection... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: HPV; Prevalence; Dai; Genotypes; Rural; Urban; China. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702017000300325 |
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