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A Review of the Evidence Comparing the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Versus Condoms in the Prevention of Human Papillomavirus Infections

JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 2008
Shelley Miksis
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Human papillomavirus infection

Disease-a-Month, 2016
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a DNA virus that causes a variety of conditions including common warts, condyloma acuminata (anogenital warts), and multiple malignancies involving the squamous epithelium. HPV is a unique oncogenic infectious agent that causes cervical cancer, the second most common cancer in women worldwide.
Jack N, Hutter, Catherine F, Decker
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Latent papillomavirus infections and their regulation.

Current Opinion in Virology, 2013
Model systems show that papillomavirus DNA can persist after lesion-regression, and be maintained in a subset of epithelial basal cells. These are very likely long-lived 'stem-cells' or 'stem-like cells', with latency arising via at least two distinct mechanisms. The first involves low-titre virus infection and the retention of viral DNA at levels that
J. Doorbar
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Human Papillomavirus Infections

Advances in Pediatrics, 1992
Though the existence of disease associated with HPV has been documented for centuries, it has been only within the past 2 decades that we have recognized the clinical diversity and significant morbidity and mortality associated with HPV infections.
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Immunology of papillomavirus infection

Current Opinion in Immunology, 1996
Studies of the immunology of papillomavirus infection have come of age. Synthetic virus-like particles have been validated as vaccines for several animal papillomaviruses, and have been used to map the sero-epidemiology of human papillomavirus infection and to define papillomavirus neutralizing antibodies.
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Human papillomavirus infection

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 1990
The human papillomavirus, well known as the etiologic agent of warts, has recently received much attention in the medical literature for its association with various cancers. This article discusses the virology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, immunology, clinical manifestations, and therapy for human papillomavirus infection.
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Pernicious Papillomavirus Infection

New England Journal of Medicine, 1999
More than 100 years have passed since an association between sexual behavior and cancer of the cervix was reported. In the ensuing years, the elusive sexually transmitted agent has been intensively sought. It was not long ago that the herpes simplex virus (HSV) was thought to be this agent on the basis of serologic studies, and indeed, HSV remains in ...
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Latent papillomavirus infection in cattle

Research in Veterinary Science, 1994
During a long term experiment designed to identify the contribution of bovine papillomavirus type 4 (BPV-4), environmental mutagens and immunosuppressants to the development of carcinomas of the upper alimentary tract of cattle, there was evidence of latent papillomavirus infection.
M S, Campo, W F, Jarrett, W, O'Neil, R J, Barron   +3 more
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Human papillomavirus infection

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 1989
Of porri, verucae, and eondylomata of the pudenda. There remains a fourth species of venereal disease to be added to those which we have already described, viz, warty excrescences of the genitals, which sometimes succeed impure coition, but for the most part follow other porky disorders that have been iU managed. Sometimes they wither of themselves and
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Persistent papillomavirus infection in a cat

Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association, 1996
A seven-year-old, neutered male, crossbred Persian was diagnosed as having persistent, cutaneous papillomavirus infection. The skin lesions consisted of round, multifocal-to-confluent, raised, black plaques on the neck, thorax, shoulders, and forelegs.
F, Lozano-Alarcón, T P, Lewis, E G, Clark, G A, Bradley, M R, Shupe, A M, Hargis   +5 more
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