| prevalence of genital human papilloma virus infection and genotypes among young women in sicily, south italy. | infection with oncogenic human papilloma virus (hpv) types is a necessary cause of cervical cancer. this study assessed the prevalence of hpv infection and genotypes among 1,006 randomly selected women, ages 18 to 24 years, living in sicily (south italy). the overall hpv rate was 24.1% (95% confidence interval, 21.5-26.9). the most frequent types were hpv-16 (4.5%), hpv-53 (2.7%), and hpv-84 (2.6%). the prevalence of vaccine types hpv-6, hpv-11, and hpv-18 was 1.4%, 0.1%, and 1.3%, respectively. ... | 2008 | 18708390 |
| detection and genotyping of human papillomavirus in gynaecologic outpatients of messina, eastern sicily, italy. | in order to determine the prevalence of human papillomavirus (hpv) infection in sexually active female population in messina, we tested cervical scrapes of women referred to university clinics for routine gynaecologic care. between march and december 2008, a total of 680 cervical samples of 598 patients (573 italian from province of messina and 25 resident aliens) were examined consecutively from laboratory of molecular biology at the department of human pathology. for each sample, cervical cell ... | 2010 | 20127015 |