| typing of human papillomaviruses in cervical carcinoma biopsies from cape town. | sixty-eight cervical carcinoma biopsies from women at groote schuur hospital in cape town were screened for human papillomavirus (hpv) dna by polymerase chain reaction (pcr) amplification with subsequent typing by hybridisation with specific oligonucleotides. amplified dnas which hybridised with the hpv group-specific oligonucleotide probes, but with none of the type-specific probes, were categorized as unclassified hpv types. eighty-one percent of samples were hpv positive and the following dis ... | 1994 | 7931183 |