| [cervical infection epidemiology of human papillomavirus in ushuaia, argentina]. | genital infection with human papillomavirus (hpv) is decisive in the causation of cervical cancer. in order to evaluate the epidemiology of hpv infection in ushuaia, province of tierra del fuego, argentina, 132 endocervical cytobrushes from preneoplastic and neoplastic cases and controls were studied. detection and typing of the viral genome was performed by polymerase chain reaction, combined with a restriction fragment length polymorphism assay or hybridization. the overall prevalence of hpv i ... | 2006 | 16784128 |