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Human Papillomavirus Infections

HPV infection can be identified in self-collected vaginal swabs

High risk, potentially cancer causing human papillomavirus infections are common among women in Papua New Guinea. But self sampling with vaginal swabs may provide materials that screen as accurately as the more labor-intensive approach using cervical samples obtained by clinicians. This finding is critical to developing same day screening and treatment, which is key to ensuring that women with precancerous lesions are treated in this largely unconnected (Electronically) country, and in others like it. Ref. Source 9t.

Infections Papillomavirus Human

Scientists design new skin cell culture technique to study human papillomavirus. A new cell culture strategy promises to illuminate the mysterious early stages of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, according to researchers. Source 2g.