| human papillomavirus genotypes in genital warts in latin america: a cross-sectional study in bogota, colombia. | epidemiological studies on benign lesions related to human papillomavirus (hpv) infection are scarce in latin america. we enrolled 342 consecutive patients with lesions suspected of being genital warts (gw). all patients underwent confirmatory biopsy and gp5+/gp6+/- reverse line blot hpv testing on frozen tissue. in 261 (81%) cases, the diagnosis was confirmed by histopathology and hpv was detected in 90.6% of men and 87.7% of women. hpv 6 was by far the most common type in both women (62%) and ... | 2013 | 23970773 |