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Very high prevalence of HPV found in adolescent U.S. girls
January 9th, 2005
Exceeding rates observed in previous research, a new study found four of five sexually-active adolescent girls are infected with human papillomavirus, a virus linked to cervical cancer and genital warts. Darron R. Brown and colleagues of Indiana University School of Medicine studied 60 adolescent girls, ages 14 to 17, at three primary care clinics in Indianapolis. They reported their results in the January 15, 2004, issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a common sexually transmitted infection whose effects may range from asymptomatic carriage of the virus to genital warts to...
Source: Aging & Elder Health Week (2005-01-09)
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