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Women's Health
Research results from University of Duisburg-Essen update understanding of women's health
October 8th, 2008
"The availability of vaccines against certain HPV types and the development of broad spectrum genotyping methods have increased interest in co-infections with different HPV types. In the present study, the prevalence and type-specific composition of multiple HPV infections were investigated in a routine cervical screening population in West Germany both at a cross-sectional level and longitudinally," scientists writing in the Journal of Medical Virology report. "Four hundred eighty-nine out of 8,090 women were diagnosed with multiple HPV infections once or repeatedly. During the 7.5-year study period, the cumulative prevalence of HPV co-infections was 15.3% in...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-10-08)
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