Research letter 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.2–16.7; p= 0.03). Women who did not appear
to have a stable sexual partnership (those who were single, separated or divorced) were …

This article reports on a large longitudinal study, begun in 1993, of the natural history of
human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cervical neoplasia in a population of low-income …

BACKGROUND: To estimate the relationship of human papillomavirus (HPV) detection and
abnormal cytology with histologic diagnoses of cervical precancer and cancer. METHODS …

In a population-based study conducted in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, we investigated the
human papillomavirus (HPV) types detected in 233 cases of cervical intraepithelial …

Persistent infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) causes essentially all precancerous
cervical lesions and cervical cancer in females and thus is an important intermediate …

In human papillomavirus (HPV)‐associated carcinogenesis, HPV infection characteristics
such as viral load may play an important role in lesion development. The purpose of this …

Previous studies have shown that risk factors for oncogenic (high-risk) and nononcogenic
(low-risk) human papillomavirus (HPV) infection differ. To determine the risk factors for …

Objective: To obtain point and cumulative prevalence estimates of cervical human
papillomavirus (HPV) infection using two HPV DNA detection methods with different end …

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is common in sexually active women and viral
persistence may cause intraepithelial lesions and eventually progress to cervical cancer …

Background: We analyzed data from a cohort of 553 women enrolled in the placebo arm of a
randomized controlled trial of the human papillomavirus (HPV) 16/18 vaccine to study the …