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Adolescent Health
Study reveals high infection rate in teens for virus linked to cervical cancer
January 25th, 2005
More sexually active adolescent females than previously thought may be infected with a virus linked to cervical cancer and genital warts, study data suggest. Darron R. Brown, MD, and colleagues at the Indiana University School of Medicine, found four out of five sexually active adolescent females infected with the human papillomavirus (HPV). The study said the rates observed among the 60 study participants from three primary care clinics in Indianapolis exceeded the HPV rates reported in previous research. Human papillomavirus is a common sexually transmitted infection and its effects may range from no symptoms to genital warts to cervical...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2005-01-25)
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