| prevalence of human papillomavirus types in women with pre-neoplastic and neoplastic cervical lesions in the federal district of brazil. | as a contribution to the public health authorities in planning prophylactic and therapeutic vaccine strategies, we describe the prevalence of human papillomavirus (hpv) types in women presenting abnormal cytological results in pap smear screening tests in the federal district, central brazil. we studied 129 cervical scraping samples from women whose cytological tests showed either pre-neoplastic or neoplastic lesions. amplification of hpv dna was performed by polymerase chain reaction using cons ... | 2004 | 14762511 |