Introduction: Hispanic women residing along the US-Mexico border have the highest
cervical cancer incidence rates in the US. Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is the major …

Background. Two vaccines protect against human papillomaviruses (HPV) 16 and 18, which
cause 70% of cervical cancer and 50% of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2/3 and …

Objective Persistent infection with high-risk (HR) HPV is a necessary risk factor for the
development of cervical cancer. Information on HPV infection is limited in Puerto Rico. This …

Minority women in the United States experience a disproportionately high burden of the
more than 2 million yearly cases of squamous intraepithelial lesions of the cervix. Risk …

Abstract The United States-Mexico border is a region comprised of a country with one of the
highest rates of invasive cervical cancer (Mexico) and a country with one of the lowest rates …

Background: Previous studies have demonstrated racial and ethnic differences in the
distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) types among adult women with cervical …

Objective To assess high-risk human papillomavirus (HR HPV) cervical infections and their
type distribution among healthy women in Guadeloupe, French West Indies. Methods The …

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the prevalence and distribution of genital human
papillomavirus (HPV) types among women in Jamaica, and to explore risk factors …

Background Limited data are available describing human papillomavirus (HPV) genotype
distributions in cervical cancer in the United States. Such studies are needed to predict how …

More than 18 types of human papillomavirus (HPV) are associated with cervical cancer, the
relative importance of the HPV types may vary in different populations. Objective: To …